{"product_id":"thanks-for-this-riot-stories-paperback-softback-9781496240330","title":"Thanks for This Riot; Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496240330","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanelle Bassett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496240330\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.252 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An acerbic examination of family and femininity.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e shows us what happens when we reach for understanding instead of judgment. This is a collection I will be thinking about for a long time.\"-Julia Romero, \u003ci\u003eOctober Hill Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating book from beginning to end. It is clear that Bassett is a talented writer, for each story contains unique characters and emotionally resonant themes. I highly recommend you check out this book, especially if you enjoy the art of short fiction.\"-Dominique Weldon, \u003ci\u003eErato Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Bassett never writes a judgmental line-if you are looking for irony or eye rolls, they are not here. Her stories play in shadows without being dark or blindly optimistic. Accept that people and their flaws make a flawed world. There's nothing to be gained by standing in the spotlight; make whimsey in the shade-it's way more fun.\"-Jeannine Burgdorf, \u003ci\u003eMasters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Janelle Bassett’s voice is one I can’t get enough of. The stories in \u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e are fresh and unique and wickedly off-kilter but also burn with a wry, age-old, ironic wisdom. This collection is bitingly funny but sincerely so, with little lies and harmless untruths taking on an edge and inflicting irresistible damage.”-Timothy Schaffert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfume Thief\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Titanic Survivors Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Janelle Bassett is a phenomenal writer. These stories are smart, irreverent, hilarious, and so wonderfully intimate. It is rare to find a writer who can balance humor with such earnest human emotion, and Bassett does it on every page. This collection is gold.”-Alison Espach, author of \u003ci\u003eNotes on Your Sudden Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding People\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Janelle Bassett’s writing is hilarious, intense, and alive. Every story in this collection is off-kilter in the best possible way. The characters are all trying to make sense of themselves in a world that doesn’t fit quite right. Reading this felt like being tickled forcefully, laughing even as it got uncomfortable.”-Katya Apekina, author of \u003ci\u003eMother Doll\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e External Riots: Threats and Violence\u003cbr\u003e More Restrictive Than Supportive\u003cbr\u003e The Crowded Private Cottage\u003cbr\u003e All I Need Are These Four Walls and Some Positive Feedback\u003cbr\u003e No Space Is Too Small When Your Head Is Detachable\u003cbr\u003e Babies Don’t Keep\u003cbr\u003e Internal Riots: Secrets and Lies\u003cbr\u003e Prove It\u003cbr\u003e These New Francescas\u003cbr\u003e Perceptor Weekly\u003cbr\u003e Bulk Trash Is for Lovers\u003cbr\u003e Safe Distances\u003cbr\u003e Laugh Riots: Growing and Trying\u003cbr\u003e Enviable Levels\u003cbr\u003e Full Stop\u003cbr\u003e The Right Light\u003cbr\u003e Wilderness Mound\u003cbr\u003e Thanks for This Riot\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600287592728,"sku":"9781496240330","price":14.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thanks-for-this-riot-stories-paperback-softback-9781496240330","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}