The only short story collection by William Melvin Kelley, Dancers on the Shore was first published in 1964. In these subtle and interconnected portraits of Black American families in the 1960s, Kelley writes with tenderness and restrained fury, capturing the lives of men and women facing racism in all its forms — overt and insidious. A powerful and deeply moving collection from a writer often compared to James Baldwin and William Faulkner.
This new edition has been translated from the English by Michelle Herpe-Voslinsky.