Heads of the Colored People | Nafissa Thompson-Spires

This collection of short stories will surprise you, delight you and at times make you cry... Nafissa Thompson-Spires brings up a diverse cast of characters in wildly different situations. From an anxious woman waiting to get her driver’s license renewed at a crowded DMV to an assistant professor who has to share his university office with an impossible colleague or a young man heading for a comic convention: each story pulls you in quick and won’t let you go for a long time after closing the book. Her writing is clever and  inventive and she manages to set a scene so vividly it feels as if you’re there yourself.