{"product_id":"9781496240330-thanks-for-this-riot","title":"Thanks for This Riot","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the 2025 PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56106633658742,"sku":"9781496240330","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37622197_fd05ab2e-f201-49c0-8237-8a687d446c9e.jpg?v=1762224186","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496240330-thanks-for-this-riot","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}