Collins' stories are intense meditations on love, heartbreak, youthful ennui, gender, and race. The stories in this collection are often conversational and candid, as though the reader has been invited to have a chat with the narrator. There are shades in the intimacy and urgency of Collins' writing reminiscent of Lorraine Hansberry and Zora Neale Hurston. Sharp and lovely, Collins' work will certainly be canonized now, but what a shame that didn't happen earlier.

Kathleen Collins, who died in 1988 at age forty-six, was an African-American playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, and educator from Jersey City. She was the first black woman to produce a feature-length film.

This is a collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known author.