Heads Of The Colored People Nafissa Thompsonspires by Nafissa Thompson-spires 9781501167997, 1501167995, B074ZNMCN8 instant download after payment.

In 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” (Financial Times). 

"A bold new voice, at once insolently sardonic and incisively compassionate, asserts itself amid a surging wave of young African-American fiction writers... In an era when writers of colour are broadening the space in which class and culture, as well as race, are examined, Thompson-Spires’ auspicious beginnings augur a bright future in which she could set new standards for the short story."  -  Kirkus Reviews

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 new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous, while others are devastatingly poignant.

Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship.  Her stories are exquisitely rendered, satirical, and captivating in turn, engaging in the ongoing conversations about race and identity politics, as well as the vulnerability of the black body. 

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).