The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories

The "Beg Borrow Steal" collection of stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a vibrant and true mosaic of New Orleans, offering an uncanny ability to reveal hidden corners of a place we thought we knew.

These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture.

In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in "Ghetto University," a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in "Before I Let Go," a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; and in "Fast Hands, Fast Feet," an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge.

These stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian.

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