{"product_id":"1501168002","title":"Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Award-Winning Short Story Collection)","description":"\n\n\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Whiting Award*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Nominated for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kirkus Prize and\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluded in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Undefeated.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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” (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNafissa 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 \u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e) collection.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHumor \u0026amp; Satire\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eHumorous\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"37 Ink","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":46723900244158,"sku":"1501168002-4","price":4.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71ELWVxYXZL.jpg?v=1778082853","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1501168002","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}