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Danielle Evans

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

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Danielle Evans' debut short story collection explores the struggles of independent characters in a world intent on fencing them out. The stories are based in a world where inequality is reality, and the shifting terrain of adolescence and family are the most complicating forces. The characters are wry, wise, and utterly original, offering a fresh perspective on race and class in contemporary America.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 09 March 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan


The extraordinary debut short story collection from Danielle Evans, one of the United States' foremost literary talents, is published in the UK for the first time. A college student's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront her feelings of resentment toward her more privileged classmates. A father's misguided attempt to rescue a gift for his adult daughter magnifies all he doesn't know about her. And two teenage girls flirt with adulthood leads to disastrous consequences. Based in a world where inequality is reality, but where the shifting terrain of adolescence and family are the most complicating forces, Evans characters are wry, wise, and utterly original. Striking in their emotional immediacy, the electrifying, prize-winning stories in Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offer a fresh perspective on race and class in contemporary America. Danielle Evans is funny as hell. - Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine Knife-sharp wit and tender but unflinching eye. - V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Love Marriage

Weight: 174g
Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529073232

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