And I knew that my father’s father was dead and that my Uncle Oscar was dead and that my Uncle David was dead and that each of these instances was unnatural.
Then he saw a shirt come down out of the sky. He walked and saw it fall, arms waving like nothing in this life. —Don DeLillo, Falling Man (2007)
Package consists of:
our Women's Work . by The Women Writers' Network of the NSW Writers' Centre, Edited by Colleen Keating, Decima Wraxall and Silda Trainor (Raxa Books) (ISBN 978-0980495416)
The second of four plays from `Chasing the Rainbow', a BBC Radio Drama initiative in the Midlands to find new writers from the black and Asian communities. What happens when a black teenager decides he wants to become a Catholic priest? Edwin Delahaye is surprised by the reaction of friends and family. With Joseph Jones, Frank Grimes and Angela Wynter. Director Peter Leslie Wild.
I felt the fear in the visits to my Nana’s home in Philadelphia. You never knew her. I barely knew her, but what I remember is her hard manner, her rough voice. And I knew that my father’s father was dead and that my Uncle Oscar was dead and that my Uncle David was dead and that each of these instances was unnatural. And I saw it in my own father, who loves you, who counsels you, who slipped me money to care for you. My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that is exactly what was happening all around us. Everyone had lost a child, somehow, to the streets, to jail, to drugs, to guns. It was said that these lost girls were sweet as honey and would not hurt a fly.
