{"product_id":"9780316599238","title":"Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuses on a particular subject - slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands of different writers, these themes provide a wealth and variety of human experience. The stories are more than testimonies of the long battle for survival. From a young woman's struggles with her barren faith in Alice Walker's lyrical \"The Diary of an African Nun\" to an innocent man's involvement in a horrifying act of violence in Ann Petry's \"The Witness\", they are, as Naylor states in her introduction, \"examples of affirmation: of memory, of history, of family, of being\". They are stories for all of us \"at the beginning: of mankind as a species; of America as a nation; of the African-American as a full citizen\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012333027568,"sku":"9780316599238","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316599238_p0.jpg?v=1769915461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316599238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}