Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Award-Winning Short

Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Award-Winning Short Story Collection)

*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award*
*Winner of the Whiting Award*
*Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize*
*Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize*

Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated.

In one of the seasonâ€™s most acclaimed works of fictionâ€”longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book Awardâ€”Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers â€œa firecracker of a book...a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingeniousâ€ (Financial Times).

Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this â€œvivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventiveâ€ (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.

Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorousâ€”two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kidsâ€™ backpacksâ€”while others are devastatingly poignant. 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.

Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. Boldly resisting categorization and easy answers, Nafissa Thompson-Spires â€œhas taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara, Morgan Parker, and Junot DÃaz do plus a whole lot of something weâ€™ve never seen in American literature, blended it all together...giving us one of the finest short-story collectionsâ€ (Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division).
Country USA
Manufacturer 37 Ink
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-04-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	37 Ink
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-04-10
Format	Kindle eBook

Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Award-Winning Short Story Collection)

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