[Publib] short story query

[Inken Purvis]

I don't know this story but have you tried the Fiction-L listserv which is 
populated by Readers Advisory librarians?  I bet someone there knows it.


Inken Purvis
MLIS College of St Catherine, MN


> >From a patron:
>
>   "When I was in high school, I read a short story that I believe the 
>title was "The Trouble". It was about a small poor child, looking out his 
>window and seeing the trouble happening in his neighborhood. He is seeing 
>conflicts between black and white people. I believe there is something 
>about him asking his mother for food, and all she has is tea to fill his 
>stomach. It was in a book with other short stories. Another story in the 
>book dealt with a young man (I believe there was reference to him being 
>part or full Mexican) who came home and told his mother that he had 
>accisently killed someone that attacked him, and now a mob of people were 
>out to get him and he had to go on the run. There were other stories in the 
>book but I cannot remember them right now, but I am mainly looking for the 
>story "The Trouble". Have you ever read or heard of that story or the book 
>it was in? "
>
>   Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>
>Susan Dennis
>

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