{"product_id":"9781935514350","title":"Rendered Invisible","description":"\"Thirteen dead black men, and nobody knows it happened,\" so says Johnny Smith, who sets out on a quest to make things right in the powerful novella that begins this collection - a masterpiece of collaged voices. Voice is urgent and significant--Dobson focuses throughout on the invisible and the unvoiced-he brings them to center stage, where they speak their pain and frustration. \"Maybe we can revise history,\" one of his characters says; Dobson's book does just that. \u003cp\u003eMary Grimm, novelist, professor, Case Western University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn entrancing prose that claims a place with writers as powerful as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and John Edgar Wideman, Frank Dobson offers his own bold, subtle explorations of race and life in America. I sat down to skim a bit of his new book of stories, and ended up reading its central novella straight through. This narrative of the .22-Caliber killings in Buffalo - little known to most Americans-and the lives of blacks and whites caught up in those tense days makes for suspenseful, compelling reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Gundy, poet, professor, Bluffton University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plain View Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040315982064,"sku":"9781935514350","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935514350_p0.jpg?v=1763656688","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935514350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}