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Riots I Have Known

Riots I Have Known

Chapman, Ryan

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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1501197312
ISBN13: 9781501197314
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman's gritty, bracing debut (Esquire) set during a prison riot is dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious...one of the smartest--and best--novels of the year (NPR).A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he's blameless--even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor's Letter. Riots I Have Known is his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge. His tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of The Holding Pen, a masterpiece of post-penal literature favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he's really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons. Fitfully funny and murderously wry, Riots I Have Known is a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege (Kirkus Reviews).

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