Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Race relations, Afro-American families, African Americans, African American families, Fiction, Literary, General, New York (State), Domestic fiction
ISBN: 9780452265813
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1991-11-15T06:00:00+00:00

A man Jinx has never seen before, in a railroad cap, soiled trousers.

Not young, not old, a stranger, grin rung and gaping up at Jinx Fairchild in expectation of seeing him plunge into the river.

Jinx feels his face pound with sudden heat as if he'd been slapped.

The man below isn't embarrassed in the slightest; he cups his hands to his mouth and calls out, Hey boy, whatcha doin' up there? in mock solicitude, and Jinx backs off, giving him an obscene gesture: Go fuck yourself, whitey.

Jinx re treats. The spell is broken. Below the bridge, idiot laughter echoes and reverberates amid the rusted girders.

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