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    I'll Give You a Reason
    I'll Give You a Reason
    I'll Give You a Reason
    Audiobook6 hours

    I'll Give You a Reason

    Written by Annell López

    Narrated by Chanté McCormick and Torian Brackett

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    The vibrant stories in this award-winning collection explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateApr 9, 2024
    ISBN9781666662214
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    Annell López

    Annell López is a Dominican immigrant. She is the author of the short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason, winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, forthcoming in 2024 from the Feminist Press. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow, her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. López is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and just finished her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.

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