Heads of the Colored People: Stories Ages 5 and up and the Middle East

and the Middle East

award-winning articles that changed the public conversation around race

Abeo's father

because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing--even otherworldly--ways

he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience

Heads of the Colored People: Stories Ages 5 and up and the Middle EastThis vivid, fast, funny, way smart, and verbally inventive (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection of stories examines the concept of black identity in this so called post racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary pushing vignettes stuffed with invention (Publishers Weekly). Each captivating story