TY - BOOK TI - Free: and other stories SN - 0385502931 AV - PS3614.A56 F74 2002 U1 - 813/.6 NAI 21 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - African Americans KW - Fiction KW - United States KW - Social life and customs N1 - Trudy --; Four --; My Side of the Story --; The Ride --; Professor --; Sunday Visit --; Bucket --; Deena --; French --; Alice & Jesse --; Inside Out --; Joey Falling --; Jarvis --; Free N2 - ""Trudy" depicts a battle of wills between a black salesclerk and a white customer, shining a harsh light on the bigotry of the 1950s. In "My Side of the Story," a little boy struggles to understand why his mother has abandoned him despite her claims that she loves him; In the aptly titled "Inside Out," a man who has adopted all the trappings of the white world - the hair, the clothes, the speech, the attitudes - finds himself still ostracized in his office and gently mocked at home by a wife who embraces her blackness with pride."--BOOK JACKET ER -