Thanks for This Riot: Stories by Janelle Bassett

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction

Thanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood.

A group counselor is taunted by a truth-divining piano bench, a voice actor shouts her abortion at the state capitol, a tired caregiver tangles with a pair of stand-up comics, a small-town newspaper office shelters an otherworldly tattletale, a backwoods acupuncturist leans on her least-exciting offspring, a girl in a strapless bra takes a vengeful go-kart ride, and a woman gets surgery to lower her expectations (she thinks it went “okay”).

Grouped by types of riot—external riots, internal riots, and laugh riots - Thanks for This Riot is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint. 

Paperback

Language: English
Extent: 186
Publish Date: 20 Aug 2024
ISBN: 9781496240330
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press