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Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
A Science Fiction Short Story Collection by Venita Blackburn
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Short Stories,
- Superhero Fiction,
- Literary Science Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Ordinary people with strange, burdensome superpowers
- Stories that dissect race, sexuality, and love through surreal twists
- Darkly funny writing that probes the human spirit
2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain.
The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways.
Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away.
Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit.
Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination.
Through it all Blackburn's characters stumble along currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious.
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