Parallel time : growing up in black and white /
Parallel Time is an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a hackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race:...
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New York :
Avon Books
1995, c1994.
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