Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionThanks 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.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
186 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
University of Nebraska Press |
Utgivningsdatum |
2024-09-01 |
ISBN |
9781496240330 |