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This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."

This first book by African American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is gaining a lot of attention. Reviewer Meyer helps understand why this is the case.

Rafia Zakaria shows us how Roxane Gay, in this new collection of short stories, explores interconnections between racism, work, love, violence, and sex.