Whites : stories / Mark Doten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doten, Mark, 1978- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--United States--Fiction.

White people.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

165 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The excoriating stories in Mark Doten's brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten's stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time. They run the political spectrum from "well-intentioned" liberals and newly woke CEOs to Trump appointees, QAnon adherents, and believers in replacement theory. There is an anti-vax nursing home employee, an anti-woke billionaire, a nonbinary sneaker podcaster turned January 6 insurrectionist, a nonprofit LA housing president dubbed "WORST KAREN EVER," an elderly Republican in denial of his COVID-19 diagnosis, teenage YouTubers responding to a shooting at their suburban Minnesota school, a demonically possessed cookie manufacturer drafting a BLM statement with his new Black employee, and a gay White supremacist figure who may be a joke on 4chan, but will have his revenge. While their identities and allegiances differ, all of them are united by a ferocious belief in themselves, certain that everything they've done can be justified, if you'll just hear them out. In Whites, Doten has written a relentless book that confirms their standing as one of the great satirists of their generation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Even Elon on human meat

Banana bunch challenge

A fence is not walls

Dying but it's something else

Whites

Pray for Q

J6ers

I'll be slayin while woke yt twitter burns

Lord Wumpa

Open for business

It's German for The, Trump, The

Fifty thousand gringos

I'm wide awake it's jumpman

Every soul ever.

Other Format:

Online version Doten, Mark, 1978- Whites

ISBN:

9781644452905

1644452901

OCLC:

1458314185