![]() Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. ![]() In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. ![]() Some are darkly humorous-two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks-while others are devastatingly poignant. Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this "vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive" (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.Įach captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. In one of the season's most acclaimed works of fiction-longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book Award-Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers "a firecracker of a book.a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious" ( Financial Times). Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated. * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize* *Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* ![]()
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