Over the course of months, the lights are flicked on and off at whim as each character strives to win the war over the office lights.Ī collection of short stories. Take for example, The Necessary Changes Have Been Made, an amusing story about Randolph, an employee at a university who gets locked into a passive-aggressive battle with his office mate, Isabella over whether the office lights should stay on or off. Heads of the Colored People, through its different styles of storytelling, will give you a snapshot of the varied lives of black people in America. And if it’s as good as Thompson-Spires’ debut, there is every reason to keep reading. Frankly, this is the beauty of short story collections – the freedom it gives to readers to pick up and put down again at a whim. It’s a short story, part of a collection of stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires called Heads of the Colored People. As uncomfortable as this ‘molding process’ was to read, as someone who used to be often referred to as a ‘coconut’, I actually identified with Fatima’s frustration. I am so bloody late, but the good news is I’ve just finished reading, Fatima the Biloquist, whose protagonist, a young lady called Fatima from a well to do family, is taken through a make-shift ghetto finishing school of sorts by her more ‘culturally aware’ bestie Violet, who is determined to make her ‘more black’. I’m sitting on a Southeastern train, heading to our Kent office for work.
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