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Before she had turned 30 or even published a full-length book, ZZ Packer was being hailed as “one to watch”—one of the best young writers to appear in the last decade or so—on the strength of stories published in Seventeen, The New Yorker (which gave Packer an official “launch”), and various anthologies. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is that much-anticipated first collection, and its stories of people trying to find their places in the world bear out the talent behind the hype. Observant and insightful, they follow the adventures (and often misadventures) of mostly young characters, male and female, as they struggle to define themselves, rebel against others’ expectations, and begin to discover just how complicated issues of race, gender, sex, and family can be.
Watch the program [requires RealPlayer®].
Card catalog entry from the Library of Congress
Blurbs from the book cover
Reading group guide from the publisher, Penguin Putnam
Amazon.com information page
Barnes and Noble information page
Book review by David Abrams from pif
Review from Africana.com, which named Drinking Coffee Elsewhere one of its Best Books of 2003
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