Neighbors and other stories

Tragically killed aged 22 in 1966, Diane Oliver’s masterly stories resonate with renewed urgency. Steeped in the uncanny horror of everyday life for the Black community in the American South of the Jim Crow era, these chilling tales explore toxic racism and the human toll of activism for ‘the cause’ with heartbreaking empathy and wisdom. Depicting families whole and broken, daily injustices and life-threatening struggle, ‘Neighbors’ take you behind historic headlines of racism and activism into one life, one family, one heart – and restores a vital missing voice to the canon.