The debut of a prodigious new talent, Danielle Evans' BEFORE YOU SUFFOCATE YOUR OWN FOOL SELF (Riverhead Books; September 23, 2010; $25.95; ISBN: 978-1-59448-769-9) is a collection of stories about young women and men of color, who are in one way or another struggling to transcend their pasts, and forced to make difficult decisions about what to keep, what to give up, and what they can never really leave behind. In "Virgins", two high school girls are forced to come to terms with their sexual...
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