New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a prize winning collection of eight short stories "featuring young people, mostly girls, black or biracial, poor or from broken families, almost adults navigating a treacherous world." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Received the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares. Review copy with promotional material laid in. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-395713277.