In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god. More about this book >

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  Colson Whitehead

  

  Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His other books include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City