Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience
by Martin Simmons

The editors have gathered together 50 moving, insightful works by a group of emerging and established contemporary black writers. Whether they are written by long-time urban dwellers, temporary inhabitants, or people just passing through American cities, the stories are all rooted in the ethnicity of their authors as it intersects with contemporary urban America, at once one of the most terrifying and exciting places in the world.