Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites Love and Death

Thirteen dead black men and nobody knows it happened so says Johnny Smith who sets out on a quest to make things right in the powerful novella that begins this collection - a masterpiece of collaged voices. Voice is urgent and significant--Dobson focuses throughout on the invisible and the unvoiced-he brings them to center stage where they speak their pain and frustration. Maybe we can revise history one of his characters says; Dobsons book does just that. Mary Grimm novelist professor Case Western University In entrancing prose that claims a place with writers as powerful as Ralph Ellison James Baldwin and John Edgar Wideman Frank Dobson offers his own bold subtle explorations of race and life in America. I sat down to skim a bit of his new book of stories and ended up reading its central novella straight through. This narrative of the .22-Caliber killings in Buffalo - little known to most Americans-and the lives of blacks and whites caught up in those tense days makes for suspenseful compelling reading. Jeff Gundy poet professor Bluffton University