Annell López

I'll Give You a Reason (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

A shimmering debut story collection intimately exploring race, identity, and the pursuit of the American Dream.



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 doppelgänger's freedom and comfort with her own body.

Annell López's indelible characters tread the waters of political unrest, sexuality, religion, body image, Blackness, colorism, and gentrificationsearching 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781558613133
• Artikelnr.: 69069719

Autorenporträt

Annell López 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. López 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.