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The main characters in the short story “Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires are Riley and Brother Man. Riley is a young black man who enjoys cosplay and wears blue contact lenses and bleaches his hair.
4. März 2024 · Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires is a collection of short stories about Black middle-class identity published in 2018. Each story tackles the different impacts race has on...
Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens black Americans, no matter their apparent success. A teenager is insidiously bullied as her YouTube following soars; an assistant professor finds himself losing a subtle war against his office mate; a ...
- Nafissa Thompson-Spires
“Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires is an unusually intricate matrix of clear-eyed observation and devastating revelation about what it means to be a human being alive on this aching, raucous, unjust planet in the early 21st century. It is also, often, extremely funny, and is very smart on every page and gorgeously ...
19. Juni 2019 · reviewed by Patrick Lohier. In Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s debut short story collection, Heads of the Colored People, a doctor suggests that an adolescent girl’s sudden and overwhelming bout of hyperhidrosis is caused by anxiety, and then asks, “Is there a history of trauma?”.
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).
Heads of the Colored People: Nominiert: National Book Award for Fiction (USA) 2018 Taschenbuch – 8. August 2019. Englisch Ausgabe von Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Autor) 4,5 682 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen. Beim Laden dieser Seite ist leider ein Problem aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es erneut.
