Manuscripts

 

Black Girl/White Girl

The time: the 40’s and 50’s. WWII is over, television has just been invented,  Rhythm and Blues is being discovered in the first neighborhood in Los Angeles to experience  integration.  A young girl moves into the neighborhood with her father.  She sees a cross being burnt on a new neighbors home and watches while every white family leaves the neighborhood as Negro and Japanese families move in. In this neighborhood she comes to believe that she is a Negro child.

 

Trickster: A True Confession

The story of a young girl who is a natural shape-shifter,
a born liar and story-teller who plays around with genders
and can easily take on a boy’s feeling for freedom and
adventure.

 

 

Life’s Long Learning: Essays
Encounter with unexpected teachers.

 

 

 

 

Intuitive Listening: Essays
A Study of the kind of listening that is not based
on theoretical knowledge.

 

 

 

 

My Sister and The Kabbalist: A Memoir of What If and If Only
The story of the life my sister would have lived if she hadn’t died at the age of 16.