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The High Price of Freeways
Tartt Award Co-winner. With aplomb and humor and steady eye, this collection looks at the Black experience in Oakland, from the founding of the Black Panthers to present day.
210 pages, Paperback
Published July 20, 2022
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Judy Juanita
12 books27 followersJudy Juanita’s latest book, a collection of essays, was a finalist in the OSU Non/Fiction Collection contest in 2016. The book, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland (EquiDistance Press, 2016) examines the distance between black and female empowerment. Her poetry and fiction have been published widely, and her plays have been produced in the Bay Area and New York City. She has taught writing at Laney College in Oakland since 1993. She lives in Oakland.
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October 11, 2022
These are moving, funny, truthful stories. I’m a huge Judy Juanita fan. Her books are inspiring, funny, and thought-provoking. Her recent collection of poems, prose poems, and all kinds of other forms, Manhattan, My Ass, You’re in Oakland, blew my mind. And so do the stories in The High Price of Freeways. Her stories feel as if they’re telling the truth; they're hilarious, moving, and sometimes shocking.
Reading these stories feels like listening to your most outrageously gossipy friend tell you wild tales. They’re about family, ghosts, politics, love, bafflement, wisdom, about what it’s like to be a young reporter writing about Miss Bronze California 1966 and inadvertently eavesdropping on infidelity at a party, or a young woman making a place for herself in the BPP in its early days (hint, it’s not the kitchen…), or a woman obsessed with her acupuncturist or a would-be sorority pledge with a huge secret. Haunting and amazing. There is no one like her.
Reading these stories feels like listening to your most outrageously gossipy friend tell you wild tales. They’re about family, ghosts, politics, love, bafflement, wisdom, about what it’s like to be a young reporter writing about Miss Bronze California 1966 and inadvertently eavesdropping on infidelity at a party, or a young woman making a place for herself in the BPP in its early days (hint, it’s not the kitchen…), or a woman obsessed with her acupuncturist or a would-be sorority pledge with a huge secret. Haunting and amazing. There is no one like her.
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