{"product_id":"thanks-for-this-riot-stories-9781496240330","title":"Thanks for This Riot: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eThanks for This Riot\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanelle Bassett\u003c\/b\u003e's writing appears or is forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eRumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmokelong Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOffing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest Microfiction 2023\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Saint Louis and is a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eSplit Lip Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894989033746,"sku":"9781496240330","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f0cf9d5-6155-4c81-bb00-5598ce8d3cde.jpg?v=1738265444","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thanks-for-this-riot-stories-9781496240330","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}