"A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as
it is urgent."-Entertainment Weekly "Black satire with bite, like
Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A
touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a serving of Dorothy
Parker, too. Give My Love to the Savages announces Chris Stuck as a
fearless talent, a debut that'll make your sides and your heart
hurt."-Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling "Give My Love To
The Savages is a wildly inventive collection of provocative stories
about navigating the minefield of black masculinity in America.
Stuck's fresh and fearless perspective overturns assumptions about
race and identity to reveal complex layers of absurdity. At times
merciless, always darkly funny, these are stories of unexpected
communion, connection, and compassion."-Chanelle Benz, author of
The Gone Dead A provocative and raw debut collection of short
fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz's Drown. A Black man's life, told
in scenes-through every time he's been called nigger. A Black son
who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the
'92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease
that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A
young Black man, fetishized by an older white woman he's just met,
is offered a strange and tempting proposal. The nine tales in Give
My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black
experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity,
and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From
the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the
ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris
Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning
from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker
of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly
racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles
placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial
relationships by society and circumstance. Setting these stories
across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Pacific
Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and small
Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race
and the odd ways that Black people and white people converge and
retreat, rub against and bump into one another. Ultimately, Give My
Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and
careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and
barbarity-the yin and yang of racial experience-and the difficult
and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of
their desires.
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