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6 edition of Aquaboogie found in the catalog.

Aquaboogie

by Susan Straight

  • 296 Want to read
  • 25 Currently reading

Published by Milkweed Editions .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Literary,
  • Fiction / Literary,
  • General,
  • Novel,
  • Fiction,
  • Fiction - General,
  • African Americans,
  • Inner cities,
  • Short stories

  • The Physical Object
    FormatPaperback
    Number of Pages196
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL8730846M
    ISBN 101571310584
    ISBN 109781571310583

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    Aquaboogie. Products; Cart; More; Cosmic Pancakes $ Pussy Snack Attack $ What We Do is Secret $ Raw Power (got a magic touch) $ The Star Man $ Purple Rain $ Slippery When Wet $ Cream $ Keith Haring $ Harvey Milk $ Lizzo $ Rainbow Chain Gang $ Marsha P Johnson. (Aqua boogie baby) Never learned to swim, (underwater boogie baby) Can't catch the rhythm of the stroke (Aqua boogie baby) Why should I hold my breath, (underwater boogie baby) Feelin' that I might choke (Ha-ah, ha-ah, ha-ah!) (Aqua boogie baby) Things ya blow through, because of things ya swim through (Underwater boogie baby).

    Books by Susan Straight. Fiction. Aquaboogie. By. Susan Straight. This collection is set in the fictional African American community of Rio Seco, loosely based on Riverside, California. Full of defiance and tenderness, these linked stories chronicle the happiness and tragedies that the town’s residents—like Nacho, the art student/janitor. If Andre was my dad, Erykah Badu was my mom, Lauryn Hill was my aunt, Nas and Common were my uncles, Kanye was my big bro, & J Cole and Kendrick Lamar .


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Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people fr /5. CHAPTER 1. aquaboogie. NACHO / APRIL.

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Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories [Susan. Straight] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. An awe inspiring book!/5(5). Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco. In “Aquaboogie,&#; art student Nacho finances his class out East by working as a janitor, subject to torment by his white coworkers.

In “Back,&#; elderly Author: Susan Straight. Fourteen stories—character sketches—set mostly in a black community in southern California; winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize.

Straight takes readers behind the scenes of familiar stereotypes: showing why young Demone (""Training"") can't do his schoolwork; why the bereaved, rather heroic Shawan (""The Box"") has such a fierce attachment to her radio; how love and hope turn to.

This collection is set in the fictional African American community of Rio Seco, loosely based on Riverside, California. Full of defiance and tenderness, these linked stories chronicle the happiness and tragedies that the town’s residents—like Nacho, the art student/janitor, or the boom box–carrying Shawan—encounter while struggling through life and self-definition.

Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) Lyrics: Ha-ah, ha-ah, ha-ah. / I am Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk / I can't swim / I never could swim / I never will swim. Check out Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) by Parliament on Amazon Music. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories Susan Straight, Author, R.

Scholes, Illustrator, Doris Grumbach, Foreword by Milkweed Editions $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. “Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve.” —The New York Times Book Review.

Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco. In “Aquaboogie,” art Brand: Counterpoint. "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" is a song by funk band Parliament. Released from their album, Motor Booty Affair, it spent four weeks at Genre: Funk.

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Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco.

In “Aquaboogie,” art. books Susan Straight has published a new memoir, In the Country of Women; eight novels, including Highwire Moon, Between Heaven and Here, A Million Nightingales; and two books for children, The Friskative Dog, a middle grade reader, and Bear E.

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Elegantly constructed and eloquently written, Straight's (Aquaboogie) second book is a coming-of-age novel of grand proportions. The story she tells is as monumental as its main character. In "Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve." —The New York Times Book Review.

Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco. In "Aquaboogie," art student. Editions for Aquaboogie: X (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), Home My Books.

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ebook. (The New York Times Book Review). In the praise of Joyce Carol Oates, "there is no new, emerging voice of the past decade more exciting, more surprising, and more richly and subtly human than [Straight].".Get this from a library! Aquaboogie: a novel in stories. [Susan Straight] -- Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people from the Westside, a black neighborhood in a large southern California city--but it isn't the California everyone knows or thinks.