The Girl with Two Left Breasts

The stories in <i>The Girl with Two Left Breasts</i> focus on a new generation of African-Americans who having had access to the education their parents could only dream of now face the challenges of living in an insane postmodern world. Readers will encounter stories shaped and styled for the new millennium as image and metaphor are taffy-stretched and virtually collapsed in order to depict how at this unique juncture barely beyond our century's turn cultures genders and points of view collide as characters struggle with issues of race identity sex and addiction in an unforgiving urban milieu. Publisher Fiction Collective 2 calls Glenn's work An important new voice speaking to us throughout the stories in an array of vivid unusual tongues all of them full of intellect passion and poetry. Moreover the collection strikes one as having been written by someone whose literary sensibility is already fully formed. This is fiction that is sometimes darkly humorous or humorously dark deftly sidestepping facile categorization and often like a koan unfolding with a lyrical sort of dissonance.