The Portable Promised Land: Stories [Paperback]

This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. With stunning language and dazzling characters, Toure introduces Soul City -- a wholly imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful. In a broad range of characterization and styles,The Portable Promised Landis filled with lighthearted humor and heavyhearted issues. Toure challenges form and what's considered politically correct in stories likeThe Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips ShinehotandAfrolexicolgy: Today's Bi-Annual List of the Top 50 Words in African America.The Portable Promised Landmarks the entrance of a new and wildly compelling voice to fiction.