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[email protected]. Anthony Grooms’s first collection of stories takes place mostly in the South of the 1960s, a time when the “colored” sign at a fast-food restaurant may have been removed, but “still people knew which line was which.” And the talk that animates these vignettes—from lunch counters to juke joints to family dinner tables—is an affecting reminder of the quiet courage, ingrained wariness, and rueful humor with which such individual decisions reshaped an uncertain community. —Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review These stories all take risks by going into virtually unexplored corners of race relations at a time when critics have declared the subject mined out… Grooms’s stories take us to the center of the phenomenon with an honesty and courage long overdue. —Phil Garner, Atlanta Journal and Constitution It is to Grooms’s credit that he has demonstrated in this collection the insider’s profound knowledge of the history and the struggles of African Americans, while consistently managing to circumscribe his breadth of understanding with a tender story-telling art.