The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501168048)

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The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford

$26.00
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Thompson-Spires, Nafissa

The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford

$26.00
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the multi-award-winning, National Book Award-longlisted, "vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive" (George Saunders) story collection Heads of the Colored People, comes a sly, spry, tall tale of a debut novel about the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the cacophony of true stories a small town can tell about itself.

Rich Milford is dead. At last.

We find ourselves in Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Massacre of 1921. For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. Now, on the ominous brink of the Great Depression and at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford is an infamous moonshiner and womanizer and, it seems, finally crossed the wrong person at the wrong time. He's dead and buried with no one but his women to mourn him but a question remains: who killed him, and why?

Top suspects are his four "wives," Lally, Sophronia, Georgette, and Vivianne. But as their stories burst to light in a volley of competing narratives, the very idea of a true story comes apart before our eyes.

In an electric follow-up to her beloved and critically acclaimed debut collection, Nafissa Thompson-Spires once again serves up a brilliant distillation of front-of-mind happenings--think, cults of personality, capitalism run amok in politics, and rampant societal distrust--this time magicked into taut historical fiction structured as a stupefying line dance. In her uniquely powerful, humorous manner, Thompson-Spires takes on the interdependent clash of the traditional and the new-fangled in this genre-bending, gob-smackingly excellent debut.

Author: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN-10: 1501168045
ISBN-13: 9781501168048
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.43d
By Nafissa Thompson-Spires
By Nafissa Thompson-Spires
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Nafissa Thompson-Spires is the author of Heads of the Colored People, which won the PEN Open Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her collection was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and several other prizes, including an NAACP Image Award. She is also the recipient of a Whiting Award. She earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Illinois. With dark humor and covering topics from identity to chronic illness, her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review's "The Daily," New York magazine's "The Cut," The Root, The White Review, Ploughshares, 400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019, and The 1619 Project, among other publications. New writing appears in Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Grant. Her young adult debut is forthcoming with Make Me a World. The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford is her debut novel.

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