Description: These fourteen stories -- some of which will make you laugh, some of which will make you cry -- cross and blur racial, cultural, social, and political boundaries. From stories filled with the colorful traditions of Africa to those reflecting the grim realities of war, George Clark creates complex and compelling fictions. His characters frequently find themselves caught in a place where black and white, good and bad, right and wrong become interchangable parts and nothing turns out the way his characters wanted it to be. All somehow, though, find the strength to go on, often from a most unlikely source. There are stories of Cubans who try to waterproof a car to use in fleeing their island's socialist state and of Cubans lying dead in Angola where they'd been sent to spread the socialist word, of men who smuggle electronic devices into the Dominican Republic hoping to make a bundle of cash, and of a refugee in the U.S. who sets his sights lower and finds a job at Sears playing Winnie the Pooh. Finely crafted by a writer we're sure to hear more about, these stories so clearly reflect all aspects of humanity that we can't help but see ourselves in characters whose lives are nothing like our own.

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