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.

*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. 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 Some are darkly humorous12 two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids17 backpacks12 while others are devastatingly poignant.

Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. In one of the season17 most acclaimed works of fiction12 longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book Award12 Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers 20 a firecracker of a book.a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious21 (Financial Times).Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this 20 vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive21 (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.

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