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In 1966 Diane Oliver died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 22, leaving behind a remarkable trove of stories which we, along with her estate, have selected and curated for this debut collection
Oliver was rediscovered by Michael Gonzales who profiled Oliver’s work in The Bitter Southerner, kicking off a renewed surge of interest in the author. Oliver published only four stories in her lifetime, including one in the Sewanee Review
Neighbors will feature an introduction by Tayari Jones and the story “No Brown Sugar in Anybody’s Milk” will feature in this year’s Paris Review summer issue
Oliver grew up in the Jim Crow South, was 10 years old when Brown vs. Board of Education passed, and went on to attend a recently integrated university. She brings a unique perspective to these stories about life under Jim Crow, centering family and community dynamics in her depictions and drawing on her own life experiences
Oliver was an MFA student at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the 1960’s. The only other Black student was John Edgar Wideman, She was awarded her MFA posthumously, days after her death
Oliver’s work has been compared with Shirley Jackson’s and Jordan Peele’s, and also has echoes of Kathleen Mansfield, Gayl Jones, and Stephen King —literary realism that is tinged and laced with a looming sense of danger
This collection joins the ranks of posthumously published story collections like Kathleen Collins’s Whatever Happened to Interracial Love and A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, both of which have gone on to become very successful
A contemporary of Kristin Hunter, Lorraine Hansberry, J. J. Phillips and Rosa Guy, Oliver was among a small group of black women making strides in the literary landscape of the 1960s
Neighbors will draw fans of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Dantiel W. Moniz, Jamel Brinkley, Deesha Phillyaw, Dawnie Walton (all of whom are currently reading to blurb) as well as Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Margot Jefferson, Megan Giddings, Zadie Smith, and Brandon Taylor, among others. This is an exhilarating discovery of a lost but incredibly contemporary writer, who will now take her rightful place in the canon of African American literature.
Faber and Faber will publish simultaneously in the UK and rights have already sold in Italy, Germany, and France
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