{"product_id":"heads-of-the-colored-people-stories-paperback","title":"Heads of the Colored People: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNafissa Thompson-Spires\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNafissa Thompson-Spires is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeads of the Colored People\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Open Book Award, the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her collection was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and several other prizes, including an NAACP Image Award. She is also the recipient of a Whiting Award. She earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Illinois. With dark humor and covering topics from identity to chronic illness, her short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's \"The\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDaily,\" \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \"The Cut,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. New writing appears in \u003ci\u003eFourteen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Margaret Atwood. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Grant. Her young adult debut is forthcoming with \u003ci\u003eMake Me a World.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kirkus Prize (2018)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463745921331,"sku":"9781501168000","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/e2Mjr2ObJa9781501168000.webp?v=1781587238","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/heads-of-the-colored-people-stories-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}