Apex Hides the HurtThis "wickedly funny" (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto! |
Contents
Section 18 | 71 |
Section 19 | 76 |
Section 20 | 87 |
Section 21 | 110 |
Section 22 | 117 |
Section 23 | 129 |
Section 24 | 140 |
Section 25 | 154 |
Section 9 | 26 |
Section 10 | 29 |
Section 11 | 33 |
Section 12 | 36 |
Section 13 | 42 |
Section 14 | 51 |
Section 15 | 57 |
Section 16 | 59 |
Section 17 | 69 |
Section 26 | 159 |
Section 27 | 162 |
Section 28 | 167 |
Section 29 | 187 |
Section 30 | 198 |
Section 31 | 203 |
Section 32 | 207 |
Section 33 | 211 |
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