Don’t Erase Me: Stories

The first collection of short stories by a noted black writer portrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York’s South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS.This remarkable debut collection introduces a wholly new original young voice to fiction by and about African Americans. Ferrell’s remarkable stories show young people on the verge of being erased from society-but determined to endure. They are black or biracial, poor or from broken families, almost-adults navigating a treacherous world. Yet their voices-incandescently street-smart-speak of passion, of connection, of hope wherever they can find it.