Dance On Saturday: Stories

"Elwin Cotman’s third collection of short fiction is only six stories long, but each story is packed with rich depth, like jeweled fruits glinting in wet loam. Mixing mythic and contemporary, humor and horror, melancholy and optimism, Cotman’s stories range from present-day Pittsburgh to fantasy Africa, with a beautifully flexible polyvocal prose. My two favorite stories make up about half the book: “Seven Watsons” and the title story both deliver all the sophistication and complexity of a novel at a third of the length, and center Black joy and endurance."