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  1. 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 ...

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  2. 19. Juni 2018 · In Nafissa Thompson-Spiress 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?”.

  3. 10. Apr. 2018 · Heads of the Colored People. Nafissa Thompson-Spires. 4.11. 7,727 ratings1,184 reviews. Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

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  4. 4. März 2024 · Complete summary of Nafissa Thompson-Spires' Heads of the Colored People. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Heads of the Colored People.

  5. In Heads of the Colored People Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in the compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters.

    • Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    • January 22, 2019
    • Paperback
  6. 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.

  7. 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.