{"product_id":"the-world-doesnt-require-you-stories-1","title":"The World Doesn't Require You: Stories","description":"Finalist • PEN \/ Jean Stein Book Award\nLonglisted • Aspen Words Literary Prize\nBest Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and Entropy\nBest Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature\n\nThe World Doesn’t Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love―all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.\nEstablished by the leaders of the country’s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations―like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths.\nAmong its residents―wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species―are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God’s last son; Tyrone, a ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who serves his Master. As the book builds to its finish with Special Topics in Loneliness Studies, a fully-realized novella, two unhinged professors grapple with hugely different ambitions, and the reader comes to appreciate the intricacy of the world Scott has created―one where fantasy and reality are eternally at war.\nContemporary and essential, The World Doesn’t Require You is a “leap into a blazing new level of brilliance” (Lauren Groff) that affirms Rion Amilcar Scott as a writer whose storytelling gifts the world very much requires. 28 black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1631495380\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1631495380.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Scott, Rion Amilcar\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47706745143473,"sku":"RDV.1631495380.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1631495380-0_0c375cc9-bc0f-4610-8072-5edada9c8dd1.jpg?v=1784054497","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-world-doesnt-require-you-stories-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}