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Get Down: Stories

by Asali Solomon

Outsiders at the edge of belonging

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Outsiders at the edge of belonging

Across these short stories, characters find themselves caught between the expectations attached to respectable lives and desires that pull them toward sex, romance, risk, or reinvention. The collection ranges across ages and situations, from a young person at Jesus camp and a prep-school student to a middle-aged mother nostalgic for her salsa-dancing years. Its recurring tension is the gap between the life a character seems meant to lead and the more unruly one glimpsed elsewhere—often just beyond reach. Together, the stories explore social belonging, longing, and the pull of lives that appear to be happening on another street.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in character-centered short-story collections.
  • Readers drawn to stories about social expectations, desire, and belonging.
  • Readers who enjoy a range of characters spanning youth and adulthood.

Themes

Belonging and social boundariesDesire and romantic longingRespectability and rebellionAge and nostalgia

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Book overview

Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits--a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other, more dangerous street. Get Down is, in the words of Edward P. Jones, "touching and sensitively observed . . . from the first word to the last."

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