Then I will be able to think and see clearly, about how integration came into style. “Then she thought, I must find an apartment high up, around the twentieth floor, where the sun will come flooding in in the morning and I won’t awaken inside a deep shaft of gloom.

Our narrator is a young black woman who has just been dumped by her white boyfriend after he visited his parents: Here’s a paragraph I loved, from the title story. The title story, in particular, is a masterpiece.” And there is always a moment in each story where you realize the work Collins is doing beneath the skin of the story. There is a real edge, a slyness to many of the stories. Fascinating to read fiction from a black woman about blackness in the early 1960s. On Goodreads, Roxane Gay wrote: “Elegant collection of stories. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Zadie Smith said: “I was moved, agitated and inspired by Kathleen Collins’s rediscovered Whatever Happened to Interracial Love.' I loved it, but you don’t have to take my word for it. Collins tackles first loves falling-apart marriages the tensions of interracial relationships and the struggle of trying to find a place for yourself in the world. Titled Whatever Happened To Interracial Love?and published in December 2016, these 16 short stories explore the lives of black women in the '60s, '70s and early '80s. Now, a collection of her short stories is being published for the first time. Collins died in 1988 at the age of 46, leaving behind a large amount of unpublished work.

Whatever happened to interracial love