{"product_id":"thanks-for-this-riot-stories-1","title":"Thanks for This Riot: Stories","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThanks for This Riot: Stories\u003c\/h1\u003eJanelle Bassett\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 1 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781496240330\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1496240332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction \u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the 2025 PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390787289133,"sku":"WHS-d59f2469405d43358ea8c4f6090e00a6","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_6d109746-6abc-4e63-b25c-aacddddd48d6.jpg?v=1787347229","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/thanks-for-this-riot-stories-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}