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In dazzling, jazzlike prose that pulses with the rhythm of the street, Nelson Eubanks traces the influences on and evolution of Maceo, from impressionable adolescent to twentysomething man—each interconnected story is a snapshot of memory bursting with emotion. In “Malta Scheffer,”... read more

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IT WAS LATE AND WARM, AND MY DADDY SQUINTED AT the white crumpled paper in his hand and down at the metal cellar doors and back at the white crumpled paper and got down on one knee and thump-thump-thumped the secret knock on the metal doors like the Chinaman at the stationery store had told us.

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  1. Nelson Eubanks (Author)
 

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