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Book Title

Whites

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Stories
Author 1
Mark Doten
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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.

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List Price
$17.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-64445-290-5
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
160
Trim Size
Trim Size
5.5 x 8.25
Keynote
Corrosive stories about the insatiable logic of whiteness, by one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

About the Author

Mark  Doten
Credit: Adrián Galindo
Mark Doten is the author of Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal. One of Granta’s 2017 Best of Young American Novelists, they are an editor at Soho Press and have taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. They live in Princeton, New Jersey and Mexico City.

https://www.markdoten.com/
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Praise

  • “Prescient about our current moment to an unsettling degree, Mark Doten’s Whites pushes satire to its farthest edge, tapping deeply into the id of American society and capturing something truly horrifying and real in the process.”—John Keene
  • “I am forever in awe of Mark Doten, a virtuoso stylist and ventriloquist whose visionary satires are spurred by a moral urgency that marks him as my generation's Bernhard as well our Burroughs. Whites is a pathbreaking brain-deranger—blistering and prescient, sure, but let's not forget funny and dirty and extremely fucking weird.”—Justin Taylor, author of Reboot
  • “Mark Doten finds beauty where the rest of us despair. I heart these stories, which crown our moment.”—Joshua Cohen
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