The Thing Around Your Neck

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, bumped at the top-right corner, faded at the spine. Quarter brown paper with tan paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twelve stories "that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.