Diane Oliver Neighbors & Other Stories (Faber Editions) : 'Breathtaking'

AS CELEBRATED ON BBC FRONT ROWThis breathtaking collection is a marvel. Tayari JonesAstute, brilliantly observed, timeless Jackie KayHer precocious and brilliant talent hasnt aged at all. Damon GalgutExquisite ... These stories are all gems. MendezYou hold your breath, completely at her mercy. Lucy CaldwellAnd she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes. One Black family comes under attack as their little boy prepares to start at an allwhite school. Friends plan a protest sitin at the Rose Crest Tea Room, only to be arrested. The first Black student always the Experiment retreats into her closet at a newly integrated college. And when a social worker enters a secluded woodland cabin, she meets the fate of all visitors . . .Tragically killed aged twentytwo in 1966, Diane Olivers masterly stories resonate today with renewed urgency. Steeped in the nightmarish horror of life for the Black community in the Jim Crowera American South, these chilling tales explore toxic racism and the human toll of activism for the cause with heartbreaking empathy and wisdom. Depicting African American families whole and broken, daily injustices and lifethreatening political struggle, Neighbors restores a lost star to the twentiethcentury literary canon. | Diane Oliver Neighbors & Other Stories (Faber Editions) : 'Breathtaking'