I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Lez, Annell

I'll Give You a Reason: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781558613126)

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I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Lez, Annell

I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

$16.95
I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Lez, Annell

I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The vibrant stories in I'll Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date since her husband's death and finds herself hunting a bear in the woods with a near stranger. An unhappy wife compares her mother's love spells and rituals to her own efforts to repair her strained marriage. A self-conscious college student discovers a porn star who shares her name and becomes obsessed with her doppelg舅ger's freedom and comfort with her own body.Annell Lez's indelible characters tread the waters of political unrest, sexuality, religion, body image, Blackness, colorism, and gentrification--searching for their identities and a sliver of joy and intimacy. Through each story, a nuanced portrait of the "American Dream" emerges, uplifting the voices of those on its margins.

Author: Annell Lez
ISBN-10: 1558613129
ISBN-13: 9781558613126
Publisher: Feminist Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2024
By Annell Lez
By Annell Lez
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Annell Lez is a Dominican immigrant. She is the author of the short story collection I'll Give You a Reason, winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, forthcoming in 2024 from the Feminist Press. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow, her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Lez is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and just finished her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.

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