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" A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz's Drown. A Black man's life, told in scenes8212 through every time he's been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the '92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by a married white woman he's just met, is offered a strange and tempting proposal. The nine tales in Give My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance. Setting these stories across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and small Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race and the odd ways that Black people and white people converge and retreat, rub against and bump into one other. Ultimately, Give My Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and barbarity8212 the yin and yang of racial experience8212 and the difficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of their desires. "
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Biographisches: " Chris Stuck is a freelance writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. He earned an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University, and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Callaloo Writer's Workshop, and the Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. He is a Pushcart Prize winner, and his work has been published in American Literary Review, Bennington Review, Cagibi, Callaloo, Meridian, and Natural Bridge. " Rezension(2): "Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling:You're going to laugh, you're going to gasp, you're going to wonder if you're allowed to enjoy this book and then you're going to be laughing all over again. This is Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a serving of Dorothy Parker, too. Give My Love to the Savages announces Chris Stuck as a fearless talent, a debut that'll make your sides and your heart hurt. " Rezension(3): "Chris L. Terry, author of the novels Black Card and Zero Fade :With these sharp and searching stories about black people adrift in America, Chris Stuck makes invisible men feel seen. In this great book, I saw myself through many lenses." Rezension(4): "Chanelle Benz, author of The Gone Dead:Give My Love To The Savages is a wildly inventive collection of provocative stories about navigating the minefield of black masculinity in America. Stuck's fresh and fearless perspective overturns assumptions about race and identity to reveal complex layers of absurdity. At times merciless, always darkly funny, these are stories of unexpected communion, connection, and compassion." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 31, 2021 Stuck puts an inventive spin on Black satire in his engaging debut collection. In “Every Time They Call You Nigger,” a Black man traces moments from kindergarten to adulthood when he is called the n-word, ruminating on how the word changes meaning as he gets older. In “Lake No Negro,” a young Black man is invited into a polyamorous relationship by an older white couple and realizes the woman has a race fetish. “The Life and Loves of Melvin J. Plump, Esq.” explores the intersection of race and identity as the narrator, a Black Republican, struggles to come to terms with a skin disease that’s turning him white, and “How to Be a Dick in the Twenty-First Century” takes a Philip Roth–style dive through a man’s metamorphosis into a penis. The blistering title story considers the contradictions of being biracial in its account of a young man visiting his racist white father in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, only to come to terms with his own privilege. Stuck brings uncompromising humor and judicious characterizations, offering piercing insights on the complexity of his characters’ experiences. The author’s perfect balance of absurdism and realism makes these stories shine. Agent: Dan Mandel, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc. "
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