![]() ![]() A thematically potent collection, whose promise is realized by Evans’s remarkable ability to fashion dramatic, even devastating narrative moments from so-called ordinary life. The AV Club says: Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self is a remarkable short-story collection in a good year for short-story collections. There is an inherent loneliness to these characters-an inability to make lasting connections with the people they most love, to bridge identities and personal history into an optimistic and cohesive view on the future, an apartness sometimes rendered from unconscionable failures of personal judgment and morality. ![]() Lee Is Dead') with a steady and unwavering realism that elevates these stories from more conventional studies. The archetypical friendship between two teenage girls.is also examined here ('Virgins,' 'Robert E. The eight stories in Danielle Evans’s debut short story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, engage confidently with themes of disconnection, alienation, and the costs of straddling racial, sexual, and emotional divides. ![]() There’s a palpable vision at work here, and it makes for a thematically incisive and cohesive, if occasionally redundant, collection that examines the lives of intelligent, highly sensitive young black and biracial women (and, occasionally, men) struggling to progress beyond transient, indeterminate states of youth. ![]()
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