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A Feast of Peonies
Overview
This novel is written in the second person singular in a way that gives it more immediacy than the first person, and certainly more than the third. It is set in present day Chicago. The protagonist is a middle-aged black man, Ashanti Ra, who, because he is on the run from the law accused of a crime he did not commit, is forced to live with a young Puerto Rican gay man, Phillip a.k.a. Phyllis, whom he met at a Latin bar a couple of days earlier. He was at the bar because he had just had an argument with his white girlfriend of several years. She wanted to get married; he did not.The story concerns Ashanti
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- ISBN-13: 9781599970301
- ISBN-10: 1599970309
- Publisher: Penknife Press
- Publish Date: September 2003
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.39 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
- Page Count: 170
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