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Training School for Negro Girls

By: Camille Acker
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Janina Edwards
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This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school" - with lessons on gentrification and respectability - and fight to create their own sense of space and self.

A Literary Hub pick of the ultimate books for fall.

©2018 Camille Acker (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. African American Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Short Stories Women's Fiction

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Each story gets into the depths of the characters and holds them up to the light with an unabashed scrutiny. highly enjoyable

short stories, fantastic writing

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I liked how the stories talked about women from all walks of life. The characters felt real and their struggles were both unique to them and universal.

Great short stories

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