African American Literature Discussion Group: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by Z.Z. Packer November 14, 2006

In Packer's debut collection of penetrating short stories, we meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in inner-city Baltimore who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby.

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