Things I Have Withheld

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A revelatory and timely approach to the complexities of colorism, queerness and the black literary tradition told in bold, innovative novelistic essays in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison. Miller probes his most intimate, vulnerable experiences of violence, microaggressions, and racial profiling. His work is steeped in the confessional voice that invites readers into the most personal corners of his own life. The breadth of Kei's work has ranged from substantial novels (Augustown) to award-winning poetry collections, to genre-bending memoir and criticism, being taught in curricula in schools and universities around the world. (Our last editorial intern took a course on the work of Kei Miller at Howard University) Kei's collection will appeal to fans of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat, Lot by Bryan Washington, and the works of Jericho Brown and Jamel Brinkley amongst others. His most recent novel, Augustown, was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Kei Miller's specific contributions to Caribbean literature have awarded him the Prix Les Afriques for the French translation of his third novel, Augustown, the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Arts and Letters, the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica. He was shortlisted for the international Dylan Thomas prize. Miller's books have also been shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion won the Forward poetry prize. He was named one of 20 "Next Generation Poets" by the Poetry Book Society, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 under 40" initiative in 2018. There was a six way auction for this book in the UK which was won by Canongate.