{"product_id":"9780063030107_give-my-love-to-the-savages","title":"Give My Love to the Savages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction\u003cbr\u003ereminiscent of Junot Diaz’s \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrown.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger.\u003cbr\u003eA Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the\u003cbr\u003e’92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned\u003cbr\u003ehim white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by an\u003cbr\u003eolder white woman he’s just met, is offered a strange and tempting\u003cbr\u003eproposal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nine tales in \u003cem\u003eGive\u003cbr\u003eMy Love to the Savages\u003c\/em\u003e illuminate the multifaceted Black\u003cbr\u003eexperience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black\u003cbr\u003elife through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the\u003cbr\u003estarkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of\u003cbr\u003ethe American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and\u003cbr\u003eattempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story\u003cbr\u003econsiders a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and\u003cbr\u003enot-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles\u003cbr\u003eplaced in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by\u003cbr\u003esociety and circumstance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting these stories across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix\u003cbr\u003eand the Pacific Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and\u003cbr\u003esmall Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race and\u003cbr\u003ethe odd ways that Black people and white people converge and retreat, rub\u003cbr\u003eagainst and bump into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eGive My Love to the Savages\u003c\/em\u003e is\u003cbr\u003ethe story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the\u003cbr\u003edichotomy of love and barbarity—the yin and yang of racial experience—and the\u003cbr\u003edifficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of\u003cbr\u003etheir desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive My Love to the Savages contains the following reprinted with permission. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And Then We Were The Norrises,” American Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cowboys,” Callaloo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every Time They Call You Nigger,” Meridian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Give My Love to the Savages,” Bennington Review and The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePushcart Prize Anthology XLV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This Isn’t Music,” Natural Bridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How to Be a Dick in the Twenty-First Century,” StoryQuarterly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Stuck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46900235436181,"sku":"9780063030107","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063030107_6861803a-0fb1-4ebe-ae0d-ea3e3557ee26.jpg?v=1776888298","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063030107_give-my-love-to-the-savages","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}