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Andy also talks about Lissa Evans's new novel Old Baggage, while John has been reading Problems by Jade Sharma. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.John and Andy are joined by writer and editor Nikesh Shukla to discuss Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer's groundbreaking collection of stories, first published in 2003.

Already an award-winning writer, Packer now shares her long awaited debut collection of stories which has been greeted with acclaim. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new voice. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking performance-fresh, versatile, and captivating. In my group we played heady, frustrating games for smart people. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere By ZZ Packer JOrientation games began the day I arrived at Yale from Baltimore.

We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decides where his allegiance lies an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick. Regina Marler About the Author:īook Description Paperback. All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, so familiar to her hand that she could use it with her eyes shut. She "tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have to. Looking around the Montgomery Greyhound station, she wonders if it has changed much since the Reverend King's days. "Speaking in Tongues" describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up. In the title story (published in the New Yorker's summer 2000 Debut Fiction issue), a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her-black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian-to stop "pretending," when she is sure that "pretending" is what got her this far. Publication date 2004 Publisher New York : Riverhead Books. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart.

Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.Īlready an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.