Cover of Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories

Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories

by Susan Straight · 1993

+ Want to read

Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people from the Westside, a black neighborhood in a large southern California city—but it isn't the California everyone knows or thinks they know.

Themes
raceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisCaliforniaCaliforniaMore like thisLess of thisLos AngelesLos AngelesMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 196 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Boy Vanishes Jennifer Haigh · 2012 Shares fiction, short stories
  2. Stop That Girl: A Novel in Stories Elizabeth Mckenzie · 2005 Shares fiction, short stories
  3. Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories. Khushwant Singh · 2001 Shares fiction, short stories
  4. Blandings: TV Tie-In P.G. Wodehouse · 2012 Shares fiction, short stories
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. The Magic of Blood Dagoberto Gilb · 1994
  2. The Rendezvous and Other Stories Patrick O'Brian · 1994
  3. Great American Stories: Ten Unabridged Classics Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain · 1994
  4. The Portable American Realism Reader · 1997

“If it was the short stories that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Sunlight and Joy: An eBook Original Short Story Barbara Delinsky · 2011
  2. At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories Tess Gallagher · 1997
  3. Naked Pueblo Mark Jude Poirier · 1999
  4. All This Heavenly Glory Elizabeth Crane · 2005

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir Mark Gevisser · 2014
  2. Jumping the Fence Stephanie Vaughan · 2005
  3. Tales of Love Loss Knut Hamsun · 2007
  4. The Domino Effect Andrew Cotto · 2011

Report a problem