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    The Stories of James McBride

    by Matthew Pincus Jan 19, 2018 2 minutes

    , ’s new short story collection, is an eclectic and delightful follow-up to his award-winning novel . It is also a collection that has been patchworked, and smoothed together over 30 years. , the novella or long story of the collection was inspired by a trip he took to the zoo with his nephews in 1986, and “The Christmas Dance” is a tale that reflects and adds to his WWII novel,. An intertwined set of four stories about young children who play in “The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band” addresses the social and communal consequences of systemic racism, as an Asian-American store owner is racially scapegoated for the murder of a young black boy, and another young black man, by the nickname of Blub, is sentenced to death for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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