The Expense of a View Guadalupe San Miguel Many African Americans remain segregated

Many African Americans remain segregated in jobless ghettoes with dilapidated schools and dismal prospects in an increasingly polarized class society

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Jewish-owned stores and homes looted and vandalised

The Expense of a View Guadalupe San Miguel Many African Americans remain segregatedThe stories in The Expense of a View explore the psyches of characters under extreme duress. In the title story, a woman who has moved across the country in an attempt to leave her past behind dumps an empty suitcase into the Columbia River over and over again. In another story, a woman who wakes up mornings only to discover she's been shooting heroin in a night trance, meets her doppelganger on a rainy Oregon beach. Most of the characters are