Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

They feature young women and men who find themselves straddling the divide between cultures, classes, relationships, and ideas about who they are and what they want to be. In each of these stories, Evans explores the nonwhite American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in their emotional immediacy, based in a world where inequality is a reality, but where the insecurities of young adulthood and tensions within family are often the more complicating factors.