Thanks for This Riot: Stories
Thanks for This Riot: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) by Janelle Bassett
English | September 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1496240332 | True EPUB | 186 pages | 1.2 MB
English | September 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1496240332 | True EPUB | 186 pages | 1.2 MB
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Thanks 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.