{"product_id":"children-of-the-night-the-best-short-stories-by-black-writers-1967-to-present-9780316599238","title":"Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present","description":"In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuses on a particular subject - slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands of different writers, these themes provide a wealth and variety of human experience. The stories are more than testimonies of the long battle for survival. From a young woman's struggles with her barren faith in Alice Walker's lyrical \"The Diary of an African Nun\" to an innocent man's involvement in a horrifying act of violence in Ann Petry's \"The Witness,\" they are, as Naylor states in her introduction, \"examples of affirmation: of memory, of history, of family, of being.\" They are stories for all of us \"at the beginning: of mankind as a species; of America as a nation; of the African-American as a full citizen.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316599238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.54w x 1.53d","brand":"Gloria Naylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636322168988,"sku":"9780316599238","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_00b571c9-28bb-4cfa-94d0-b5a166a22132.jpg?v=1603841602","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/children-of-the-night-the-best-short-stories-by-black-writers-1967-to-present-9780316599238","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}