U of Nebraska Press
Thanks for This Riot : Stories
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9781496240330
ISBN13:
9781496240330
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Thanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselor is taunted by a truth-divining piano bench, a voice actor shouts her abortion at the state capitol, a tired caregiver tangles with a pair of stand-up comics, a small-town newspaper office shelters an otherworldly tattletale, a backwoods acupuncturist leans on her least-exciting offspring, a girl in a strapless bra takes a vengeful go-kart ride, and a woman gets surgery to lower her expectations (she thinks it went "okay"). Grouped by types of riot--external riots, internal riots, and laugh riots--Thanks for This Riot is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint.
| Author: Janelle Bassett |
| Publisher: U of Nebraska Press |
| Publication Date: Sep 01, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 184 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1496240332 |
| ISBN-13: 9781496240330 |
Thanks for This Riot : Stories
$19.95
$18.14
Sale 9%
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Thanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselor is taunted by a truth-divining piano bench, a voice actor shouts her abortion at the state capitol, a tired caregiver tangles with a pair of stand-up comics, a small-town newspaper office shelters an otherworldly tattletale, a backwoods acupuncturist leans on her least-exciting offspring, a girl in a strapless bra takes a vengeful go-kart ride, and a woman gets surgery to lower her expectations (she thinks it went "okay"). Grouped by types of riot--external riots, internal riots, and laugh riots--Thanks for This Riot is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint.
| Author: Janelle Bassett |
| Publisher: U of Nebraska Press |
| Publication Date: Sep 01, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 184 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1496240332 |
| ISBN-13: 9781496240330 |
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