What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? -- The legend of Lonnie Lion -- Be good to me -- Toll for the passengers -- Kinfolk -- Outside Tacoma -- Everything is flammable -- Dress code -- Cookouts.
Summary
A collection of stories follows four young men as they come of age in a Rhode Island postindustrial enclave and struggle to liberate themselves from the limitations imposed on African Americans while navigating the dynamics of sex, drugs, class, and family.
