![]() ![]() Fascinating to read fiction from a black woman about blackness in the early 1960s. On Goodreads, Roxane Gay wrote: “Elegant collection of stories. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Zadie Smith said: “I was moved, agitated and inspired by Kathleen Collins’s rediscovered Whatever Happened to Interracial Love.' I loved it, but you don’t have to take my word for it. Collins tackles first loves falling-apart marriages the tensions of interracial relationships and the struggle of trying to find a place for yourself in the world. ![]() Titled Whatever Happened To Interracial Love?and published in December 2016, these 16 short stories explore the lives of black women in the '60s, '70s and early '80s. Now, a collection of her short stories is being published for the first time. ![]() Collins died in 1988 at the age of 46, leaving behind a large amount of unpublished work. ![]()
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