Bøger af Nafissa Thompson-Spires

**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2019****Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018***Finalist for the Kirkus Prize 2018**Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2019*In this crackling debut collection Nafissa Thompson-Spires interrogates our supposedly post-racial era.

*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award* *Winner of the Whiting Award* *Longlisted for the 2018 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* Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated. In one of the season's most acclaimed works of fictionlonglisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book AwardNafissa 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 humoroustwo mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpackswhile 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 Daz 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).