An inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that grapples with the absurdity of the New York City educational system as a substitute teacherthat, in the end, reads as an ode to the city itself
June Papers is a twenty-eight-year-old MFA grad with a felony record, the classic young, Black and gifted American misfit. Hes also a substitute teacher. Hes also homeless. With dreams of becoming a writer, June endures a host of trials and dilemmas as he reluctantly realizes mentoring and teaching might actually be a path forward for him.
Wings of Red is driven by Junes unique narrative style, a propulsive voice that intimately and vulnerably guides readers through the condemned external reality of a Black educators personal and professional world falling apart, and coming together again.
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