Written between 1937 and 1954 and collected here for the first time,
"Flying Home and Other Stories" represents the best of Invisible Man
author Ralph Ellison's short fiction. There are 13 pieces, six of which
were never published in Ellison's lifetime. Ellison draws on his early
experiences - his father's death when he was three; hoboing his way on a
freight train to Tuskegee Institute to follow his early dreams of
becoming a musician - to create stories that, according to "The
Washington Post," "approach the simple elegance of Chekhov."