- American Short stories, African Americans, Blacks, Race identity
"Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.
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Contemporary, prestige, spare and character-led.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Thorndike Press, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784706586
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