I'll Give You a Reason Binding:Paperback skateboard in hand

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A little girl's belief in Santa is restored in this ode to the magic of Christmas

and tender portrait of adolescent misery

conjures a world of magic and danger

I'll Give You a Reason Binding:Paperback skateboard in handFinalist for the 2025 PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection A shimmering debut story collection intimately exploring race, identity, and the pursuit of the American Dream. The vibrant stories in Ill Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date since her husbands death and finds herself hunting a bear in