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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). "A bold new voice, at once insolently sardonic and incisively compassionate, asserts itself amid a surging wave of young African-American fiction writers... In an era when writers of colour are broadening the space in which class and culture, as well as race, are examined, Thompson-Spires’ auspicious beginnings augur a bright future in which she could set new standards for the short story." - Kirkus ReviewsNafissa 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. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous, while others are devastatingly poignant.Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. Her stories are exq

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Author

Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

Publisher

Atria / 37 Ink, Simon & Schuster

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501168017

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.5 / 5 (692 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14