Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Heads of the Colored People: StoriesWinner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize * Nominated for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The UndefeatedIn one of the seasons most acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson

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her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson

and assess the anxiety about HIV and AIDS within black communities

Continually using Baraka as the focal point for a broader analysis

Using exploratory research methods and systems theory

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Angel is out for blood after Darien is left for dead on their wedding night

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young Gabriel Green relocates from Chicago to Miami

Also taking a liking to Marian is the widowed Lady Rosedale