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In Amina GautierвЂTMs Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids donвЂTMt, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. GautierвЂTMs stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,” yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences. GautierвЂTMs focus is on quiet daily moments, even in extraordinary lives; her characters do not stand as emblems of a subculture but live and breathe as people. In “The Ease of Living,” the young teen Jason is sent down south to spend the summer with his grandfather after witnessing the double murder of his two best friends, and he is not happy about it. A season of sneaking into as many movies as possible on one ticket or dunking girls at the pool promises to turn into a summer of shower chairs and the smell of Ben-Gay in the unimaginably backwoods town of Tallahassee. In “Pan Is Dead,” two half-siblings watch as the heroin-addicted father of the older one works his way back into their motherвЂTMs life; in “Dance for Me,” a girl on scholarship at a posh Manhattan school

Who reads At-Risk?

Author

Gautier, Amina

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14