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Her flight was starting to board. We remained seated, and Auma closed her eyes, squeezing my hand. “We need to go home,” she sai ...
Angela looked like she was going to pass out. The mayor asked if she would introduce him to her associates, and she began to lau ...
“I’m not trying to prove anything, Will.” I started the car and began to pull away, but not fast enough to avoid hearing Will’s ...
He had it all worked out in his head: how much time it would take to hire and train a replacement for me, the need to leave a re ...
In a sense, then, Will was right: I did feel that there was something to prove-to the people of Altgeld, to Marty, to my father, ...
office, she’s the mother of one of our kids. A junkie. Her boyfriend was arrested last night and can’t make bail. So tell me-wha ...
the social worker, waiting at the currency exchange to cash their welfare checks, waiting for the bus that would take them to th ...
parents, she was married, to a young man who worked as a store clerk by day but was training to be a minister; they didn’t assoc ...
“I...the records are all at the downtown office,” Mr. Anderson stammered. “Filed away, you understand.” “Do you think you can ge ...
“In Altgeld!” “What if they say they’ll give us an answer later?” “We want an answer now!” “What if they do something we don’t e ...
“Why’s that?” “I don’t know. I never been on TV before.” “You’ll be fine.” In a few minutes the cameras were rolling, and Sadie, ...
But it was away from all that, as we prepared for our meeting with the CHA director, that I began to see something wonderful hap ...
I was about to cut our losses and go ahead with Ms. Broadnax when a murmur rose from the back of the gym and the director walked ...
“I’m so embarrassed,” she said, gulping down a sob. “I don’t know what happened, Barack. With all the people...seems like I just ...
Bernadette hoisted Tyrone up on her lap. “Tell that to him.” Sadie didn’t join us for that meeting. She had called me to say tha ...
“Who was it that jumped?” “That’s the other thing, Barack!” Johnnie took a drag from his cigarette and let the smoke roll from h ...
colder months, stripped down to T-shirts in the summer, answering their beepers on the corner pay phones: a knot that unraveled, ...
Don’t worry, I would tell her; I was a lot worse at Kyle’s age. I don’t think she believed that particular truth, but hearing th ...
It seemed like a natural issue for us. Segregation wasn’t much of an issue anymore; whites had all but abandoned the system. Nei ...
“The first thing you have to realize,” he said, looking at Johnnie and me in turn, “is that the public school system is not abou ...
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