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Key, Justin C.
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Prejudices -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Technology -- Fiction.
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Key, Justin C.
Prejudices -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Technology -- Fiction.
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The world wasn't ready for you : stories / Justin C.
Key
.
by
Key
, Justin C.
HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION
KEY
Subjects
Prejudices --
Fiction
.
Racism --
Fiction
.
Technology --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780063290426 (hc.)
Description:
277 p. : 24 cm.
Contents:
The perfection of Theresa Watkins -- Afiya's song -- Wellness check -- Spider king -- One hand in the coffin -- Customer service -- Now you see me -- The world wasn't ready for you.
Summary:
Justin C.
Key
has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all. In The World Wasn't Ready for You,
Key
expands and subverts the horror genre to expertly explore issues of race, class, prejudice, love, exclusion, loneliness, and what it means to be a person in the world, while revealing the horrifying nature inherent in all of us. In the opening story, "The Perfection of Theresa Watkins," a sci-fi love story turned nightmare, a husband uses new technology to download the consciousness of his recently deceased Black wife into the body of a white woman. In "Spider King," an inmate agrees to participate in an experimental medical study offered to Black prisoners in exchange for early release, only to find his body reacting with disturbing symptoms. And in the title story, a father tries to protect his son, teaching him how to navigate a prejudiced world that does not understand him and sees him as a threat."--Publisher.
Genre:
Short stories.
Science
fiction
.
Horror
fiction
.
Black
fiction
.
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Science Fiction
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