{"title":"Fiction - Short Stories","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"look-for-me-and-ill-be-gone-stories","title":"Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*A\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTop 10 Best Book of the Year*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of language” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLook For Me and I’ll Be Gone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, his sixth collection of stories, John Edgar Wideman imbues with energy and life the concerns that have consistently infused his fiction and nonfiction. How does it feel to grow up in America, a nation that—despite knowing better, despite its own laws, despite experiencing for hundreds of years the deadly perils and heartbreak of racial division—encourages (sometimes unwittingly, but often on purpose) its citizens to see themselves as colored or white, as inferior or superior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever content merely to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003etell a story\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Wideman seeks once again to create language that delivers passages like jazz solos, and virtuosic manipulations of time to entangle past and present. The story “Separation” begins with a boy afraid to stand alone beside his grandfather’s coffin, then wends its way back and forth from Pittsburgh to ancient Sumer. “Atlanta Murders” starts with two chickens crossing a road and becomes a dark riff, contemplating “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” James Baldwin’s report on the 1979–1981 child murders in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprised of fictions of the highest caliber and relevancy by a writer whose imagination and intellect “prove his continued vitality...with vigor and soul” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLook For Me and I’ll Be Gone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will entrance and surprise committed Wideman fans and newcomers alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wideman, John Edgar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201080557744,"sku":"9781982148942","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/61uCUeA3-7L._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1708718086"},{"product_id":"concerning-those-who-have-fallen-asleep-ghost-stories","title":"Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep (Ghost Stories)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eConcerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis weird in all the best ways possible . . . These tales are plucked from bizarre worlds, from the blood of shadow creatures, from the tears of angels. Let them haunt you.” —Gabino Iglesias, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Devil Takes You Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of short stories moving through time and place, exploring the spaces where we haunt each other and ourselves through our choices, our institutions, and our dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdam Soto, author of the debut novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Weightless World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which Robin Sloan called “The social novel for the 21st century,” returns with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. In “Sleepy Things,” a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother’s dreams. In “Wren \u0026amp; Riley,” a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. 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Their reality is one of dashed hopes, twisted love and the pain of homesickness, even as they fight to make their way in this new world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetter Never Than Late\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a layered and affecting portrayal of the everyday absurdities and adversities of migrant life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unigwe, Chika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43317437268144,"sku":"9781911115540","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/late.jpg?v=1711815218"},{"product_id":"lagos-noir-1","title":"Lagos Noir","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWest Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This anthology stands out because of its unique approach to crime and punishment, and its intense focus on the sociological aspects of crime in one of the world’s largest, fastest growing and most complex regions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLagos Noir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different to read in a highly saturated market.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrittle Paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrooklyn Noir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. 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