If I Had Two Wings - Randall Kenan

Category: Anthology, General Fiction, LGBT
Language: English
Keywords: African American Short Story Collection

Written by Randall Kenan
Read by JD Jackson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these 10 stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.

In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.

Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
Release date: 02-02-21