![]() The family "dressed in distinctive garb" does work for him without pay or a thank you. A Secret meeting is held to talk about the lesson, with the culmination of events ending in the "messy, with leaves and wads of chewing gum on the floor" camp bathroom (13.) The story twists when the African American girls realize the White girl’s troop consists of "delayed learners" with "special needs," who have the medical condition of "Echolalia." Laurel (the narrator)reaches a conclusion as she relates her father’s story of a Mennonite family. ![]() Suggestions for the "lesson" include: "beating" the White girls up or placing "daddy-long-legs" in their sleeping bags. Over a period of four days, the African American Brownie troop confirms their suspicions and plan a "lesson" for the other troop. At the camp, the African American Brownie troop of six young girls, (from an inner city school, Woodrow Wilson Elementary, which is predominately racially segregated, as referenced to the only White student, Dennis at the school) encounters the "invaders." A White girls Brownie troop #909, exiting their bus the White girls have a special appearance, "their complexions of ice cream: strawberry, vanilla" but smell like "wet Chihuahuas" (Packer 1.) A plan is developed when the African American Brownie troop girls learn and believe that one of the fourth grade girls from the White troop addressed them with a derogatory racial slur. The short story "Brownies" takes place at a summer camp (Camp Crescendo) located on a reopened high school band and Hockey field near the south suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. The book is published by Riverhead books, New York, 2003. The stories in "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" have been printed in The New Yorker, Harpers, and Ploughshares Literary Magazine. ![]() ZZ packer taught at Stanford University in California and lived in the Bay area with her husband up to the printing of her collection. ZZ Packer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1973, and attended John Hopkins University Writing Seminar, including The University of Iowa Writers Workshop, graduating with a M.F.A. The book features a collection of highly praised short stories. African American author, ZZ Packer wrote "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" in 2003.
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