Member Since. November edit data. Amina Gautier is the author of the short story collections At-Risk, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award (University of Georgia Press, ), Now We Will Be Happy, Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, ), and The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press, She has published over ninety short stories.4/5. · In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk," yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences. summary. In Amina Gautier’s Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don’t, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier’s stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,” yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.
AMINA GAUTIER is the author of At-Risk, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short bltadwin.ru is the author of two more award-winning short story collections, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost bltadwin.ru was the recipient of the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Amina Gautier is the author of two short story collections: Now We Will Be Happy (University of Nebraska Press, ), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and At-Risk (University of Georgia Press, ), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories appear in Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Southeast Review, Southern Review and Tampa. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, At-risk (University of Georgia Press) by Amina Gautier is a heartbreaking, eye opening, and endearing collection of stories that focus on African-American children in turmoil. Fathers leave, or if they stay, fall apart—addictions and failure all around them.
Member Since. November edit data. Amina Gautier is the author of the short story collections At-Risk, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award (University of Georgia Press, ), Now We Will Be Happy, Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, ), and The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press, She has published over ninety short stories. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Amina Gautier’s At-Risk tells the stories of teenagers who, for many reasons, are at risk. The children in Amina Gautier’s slim volume of stories, At-Risk, live in peril. One is a mother at sixteen, another witnesses the shooting deaths of two friends—one of whom is himself the central figure of the collection’s final story. In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk," yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.
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