Drinking coffee elsewhere /

Drinking coffee elsewhere takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong, from a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Millio...

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Main Author: Packer, ZZ.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003.
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Summary:Drinking coffee elsewhere takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong, from a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; and to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.
Physical Description:238 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:1573222348 (acid-free paper)