Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen Collins

Now available in Eccos Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmakera contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paleywhose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide acclaim.

Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collinss stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issuesrace, gender, family, and sexualitythat shape the ordinary moments in our lives.

In The Uncle, a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In Only Once, a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimateand finalact of foolishness. Collinss work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the readers head and heart.

Both contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major addition to the literary canon, and is sure to earn Kathleen Collins the widespread recognition she is long overdue.