Heads of the Colored People
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Heads of the Colored People

Stories

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Heads of the Colored People

Stories

About this book

Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the 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 Named a Best Book of the Year by Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated In one of the season's most acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers "a firecracker of a book...a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious" ( Financial Times ). 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.Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks—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 "has taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara, Morgan Parker, and Junot Díaz do plus a whole lot of something we've never seen in American literature, blended it all together...giving us one of the finest short-story collections" (Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division ).

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Information

Publisher
37 Ink
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781501168017
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter 1: Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology
  4. Chapter 2: The Necessary Changes Have Been Made
  5. Chapter 3: Belles Lettres
  6. Chapter 4: The Body’s Defenses Against Itself
  7. Chapter 5: Fatima, the Biloquist: A Transformation Story
  8. Chapter 6: The Subject of Consumption
  9. Chapter 7: Suicide, Watch
  10. Chapter 8: Whisper to a Scream
  11. Chapter 9: Not Today, Marjorie
  12. Chapter 10: This Todd
  13. Chapter 11: A Conversation about Bread
  14. Chapter 12: Wash Clean the Bones
  15. Author’s Note
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Reading Group Guide
  18. About the Author
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. List of Publication Acknowledgments
  21. Copyright