![]() Our daughter, one, staggers around and discovers an empty water bottle that she squeezes like a bellows, simultaneously blowing a raspberry. He sits on the dusty ground and lines them up, etching roads into the dirt with a shovel-shaped rock. Our son, four, has brought a backpack full of Matchbox cars. There’s a bar lined with antique candleholders, a boom box propped on one of the scattered tables, and-close to the trailer-a picnic table. A big white tent erected nearby and strung with lights creates a makeshift restaurant garden. A small, weathered black trailer, it’s parked at the far end of the lot. Beyond the sign, up a gravelly hill, in front of a squat building surrounded by retired newspaper vending machines, is the Afrissippi food truck. ![]() Fulani Journey Guelel Kumba’s Afrissippi Food Truck by William BoyleĪ handmade sign advertising African food pokes up from a muddy ditch at the intersection of Molly Barr Road and North Lamar Boulevard in Oxford, Mississippi. Thanks to SFA members, whose support helps make Gravy possible. ![]() Join or renew your SFA membership to receive a subscription to Gravy in print. He is the author of a novel, Gravesend, and a story collection, Death Don’t Have No Mercy. The author, William Boyle, is a Brooklyn native who lives in Oxford, Mississippi. This story first appeared in the winter 2015-16 issue of our Gravy quarterly.
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