This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

    But since they were both fugitives—since they were forced to share daily bread, shelter and fear—they were forced to do one other thing. To take a new, close look at one another. At the face of the enemy.My Sweet Charlie—an unconventional, unsparing story about two people from hostile worlds who are thrown into a strange intimacy.