The End of the Jews (Mansbach; Random House)and And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl(Kun; Crown)
Adam Mansbach's previous novel, Angry Black White Boy, was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. It is taught at more than sixty universities and high schools, and has been adapted for the stage. His previous books include the novel Shackling Water, and the poetry collection genius b-boy getting weeded in the garden of delights, and A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing, an anthology of original short stories which he co-edited. Adam is a hip hop artist whose debut album Stand for Nothing, Fall for Anythingwas released by Upshot Records in 2005. The recipient of a 2008 Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant from the Ford Foundation, Mansbach is the 2009-2010 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University.
A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year (2008)
"A beautiful, funny, heartbreaking book that manages to take on art, love, identity, and class anxiety. Very few writers could have attempted all this without farcical results. Adam Mansbach succeeds, brilliantly
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