That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor Jigsaw Puzzle

That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor Jigsaw PuzzleFrom the Thurber Prize winning author of What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today A critic explores the paradox of finding community in the dozens while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all too familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated Green Book but for public toilets. All across the nation,

and even names can shape relationships and history

she already had bad money habits that would follow her into adulthood

and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence Longlist

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a new daytime dancer

chef and culinary activist Lelani Lewis goes back to her Caribbean roots with classics like jerk chicken

not with the overseer on their trail

passing his learnings down to his children and seeing them off to freedom after the Civil War

Rest Is Resistance is a call to action

and skinny dip under the stars

their passage marked by unkept promises and open wounds

and soothing the nervous system to developing a vocabulary for emotional self-expression