![]() Yet even these readers may feel grateful to Bracy for having tried to preserve his family's speech and stories on the page. ![]() Even at his best, Bracy may distance some readers with his lower-case orthography and his preference for the sentimental vignette over narrative complexity. These pre-coming-of-age tales are among the collection's best Bracy's heavy-handed stories of the civil rights movement are less successful. The odds are ""fifty/fifty"" for an ailing nine-year-old who discusses the prospect of heart surgery with his best friend while both boys face their mortality for the first time. In ""warrior seed,"" a loving aunt, concerned that her seven-year-old nephew may be unable to hold his own against youngsters his own age, unwittingly pushes the boy toward violence. ![]() In ""proposal,"" a seven-year-old asks his playmate's father for her hand in marriage. ![]() ![]() Family and friendship are Bracy's forte, politics and polemics are not, in this ensemble of 20 short pieces based on the history of his ancestors, half South Carolina Gullahs and half Blue Ridge Virginians. Cool Grove Press, 22.95 (154pp) ISBN 978-1-88 Family and friendship are Bracy's forte, politics and polemics are not, in this ensemble of 20 short. ![]()
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