White People: Stories from the Heart of the Suburbs Book

Praise for Lee Stringer: “[In Grand Central Winter] Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born of pain but delivered with style and heart.”â??John Jiller, The New York Times Book Review “[Sleepaway School] is an unforgettable coming of age.”â??Booklist, starred review “[Sleepaway School] is stark and eloquent, raw and beautiful.”â??Times Union (Albany) Lee Stringer’s inimitable wit and grace in White People: Stories from the Heart of the Suburbs brings to life what it meant to be black in a time of peace, love, riots, assassinations, revolution, and counterrevolution. The harder the adolescent Lee looked, the more perplexing the people around him looked and acted. Black Power may have been on the news, but white power was everywhere. White People is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a country in turmoil. In White People, Lee Stringer attempts the near-impossible task of searching out our common humanity while addressing race head on. Lee Stringer is the author of Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life and Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street, a New York Times Notable Book and USA Today Top Ten Pick. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award and was awarded a 2005 Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship. He is also the author, with Kurt Vonnegut, of Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation on Writing. Stringer’s work has been translated into a dozen languages. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.Read More