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    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories

    Written by Ladee Hubbard

    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo and JD Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of interlocking short stories including the title story written exclusively for this volume, that explore relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years

    The twelve gripping tales In The Last Suspicious Holdout, the new story collection by award-winning author Ladee Hubbard, deftly chronicle poignant moments in the lives of an African American community located in a “sliver of southern suburbia.” Spanning from 1992 to 2007, the stories represent a period during which the Black middle-class expanded while stories of ""welfare Queens,"" ""crack babies,"" and ""super predators"" abounded in the media. In “False Cognates,” a formerly incarcerated attorney struggles with raising the tuition to keep his troubled son in an elite private school. In “There He Go,” a young girl whose mother moves constantly clings to a picture of the grandfather she doesn’t know but invents stories of his greatness. Characters spotlighted in one story reappear in another, providing a stunning testament to the enduring resilience of Black people as they navigate the “post-racial” period The Last Suspicious Holdout so vividly portrays.

    Editor's Note

    Immersive experience…

    Told through various points of view — including a young man convicted of murder and a city councilman having an affair — Ladee Hubbard’s “The Last Suspicious Holdout” follows the residents of an isolated Southern Black community through decades of inequity and unrest. The rich dialogue and relatable characters in this collection of connected short stories offer an immersive experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 8, 2022
    ISBN9780063226746
    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
    Author

    Ladee Hubbard

    Ladee Hubbard is the author of The Rib King and The Talented Ribkins, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Times Literary Supplement, Copper Nickel and Callaloo. Hubbard is a recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She has also received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, the Sacatar Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Born in Massachusetts and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida, Ladee Hubbard currently lives in New Orleans.

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