Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the...
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

Heads of the Colored People: Stories

$27.53
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

Heads of the Colored People: Stories

$27.53
Author: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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).

Author: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: 01/22/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781501168000


Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist

About the Author
Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Illinois. Her work has appeared in Story Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, and The Feminist Wire, among other publications. She was a 2016 fellow of the Callaloo Writer's Workshop. She is the author of the short story collection Heads of the Colored People.
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