This retelling of a Japanese folktale has
flying white rats, a fire - breathing bird, a snow demon, and other creepy things.
Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes
flown by
white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible,
rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.