"I remember what my grandmother used to tell me: 'It don't make no difference how well you fox-trot if everybody else is dancin' the two-step.'' James Alan McPherson, 'The Story of the Scar,' reprinted in Elbow Room: Stories (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1993), at 116, 124. Often times, especially in my professional life, I sense I am not dancing the dance being danced by everyone else.
James Alan McPherson, Crabcakes: A Memoir (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
James Alan McPherson, A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000) (I know how it feels to be an exile in one's country, in one's own home.).
