All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:...

; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 for The Known World

The Known World

The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites...

. The collection of 14 stories centers around African-Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century. The stories can be broken down by how the characters suffer burdens from families, society, and themselves. "Each story traces a journey--planned or unplanned, taken or failed--and an obvious root/route symbolism runs throughout the collection." Jones is noted for writing long short stories and these are no exception, they are sometimes called "novelistic", characters are fully fleshed out.

The stories of his first and third book are connected. As Neely Tucker

Neely Tucker

Neely Tucker is a journalist at the Washington Post and the author of Love in the Driest Season. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent in Zimbabwe, where he and his wife Vita lived, and where they adopted a child. He currently writes for the Style section of the Washington Post.-References:...

 says:

"There are 14 stories in "Lost," ordered from the youngest to the oldest character, and there are 14 stories in "Hagar's," also ordered from youngest to oldest character. The first story in the first book is connected to the first story in the second book, and so on. To get the full history of the characters, one must read the first story in each book, then go to the second story in each, and so on."

External links

• "Still Lost in the City", The New York Times Book Review
  The New York Times Book Review
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• The Quarterly Conversation review
• "Shining City, Tarnished Dreams", The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
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• Review of All Aunt Hagar's Children
• "Edward P. Jones' Tales of 'Aunt Hagar's Children'", NPR
  NPR
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  audio interview with Jones