Tales From the Street
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About the Book
From single motherhood to Uncle Jazz in drag, Tales from the Street focuses its readers on a unique viewpoint of urban family life. This series of short stories opens with six-year-olds engaging in social commentary concerning the adult world of sex, childbirth and motherhood proclaiming, "You always bragging about your daddy, but you don't have two mommies like I have ".
Varying themes, including brutality, infidelity and sexual experimentation, feature strong African-American women surviving, living and loving.About the Author
Gail Rose Sharbaan, a native New Yorker, still resides in the city that provided education, countless events of inspiration, and the birth of her two children. She served as fiction editor and writer for African Voices and feature writer for QBR. This is her first book of short stories and poetry.