Bee-luther-hatchee
by Thomas Gibbons

Shelita Burns, an African-American editor, publishes Bee-luther-hatchee, the autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old black woman named Libby Price.

Shelita has never met Libby, and when the book wins a prestigious award she decides to deliver it to her in person.

To her profound shock, the actual author of the book is a white man named Sean Leonard.

Furious and resentful, Shelita accuses Sean of perpetrating a hoax, while he defends the book as a truthful work of imagination.

Their confrontation, played out on the edge of the racial divide, builds to a jarring act of violence.

This is the first part of a trilogy including Permanent Collection and A House With No Walls .