I'll Give You a Reason Binding:Paperback and tender portrait of adolescent

and tender portrait of adolescent misery

even if it could cost her everything she's ever known

conjures a world of magic and danger

her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion

from high blood pressure and heart problems to anxiety and depression

I'll Give You a Reason Binding:Paperback and tender portrait of adolescentFinalist 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