OCTOBER SUITE
By Maxine Clair
Random House, October 2001, $23.95
ISBN 0-375-50630-6
In October Suite, Maxine Clair reprises the character of October Brown, who we encountered in Clair's astonishing 1994 short story collection, Rattlebone, winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction and the American Library Association's Black Caucus Award for 1995. In Rattlebone, we see the feisty October Brown only obliquely -- through the eyes of school children wary of the splotch of white vitiligo on her chocolate-smooth cheek that they call her "devil's kiss." One child in particular, Irene Wilson, has reason to resent October.
Brown, the pretty …
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