{"product_id":"heads-of-the-colored-people-9781501168000b","title":"Heads of the Colored People","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach 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\u003cbr\u003eThompson-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).","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42869908635728,"sku":"9781501168000B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781501168000-l.jpg?v=1785879121","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/heads-of-the-colored-people-9781501168000b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}