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"The vibrant stories in I'll 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 husband's death and finds herself hunting a bear in the woods with a near stranger. An unhappy wife compares her mother's love spells and rituals to her own efforts to repair her strained marriage. A self-conscious college student discovers a porn star who shares her name and becomes obsessed with her doppelg�nger's freedom and comfort with her own body. Annell L�pez's indelible characters tread the waters of political unrest, sexuality, religion, body image, Blackness, colorism, and gentrification--searching for their identities and a sliver of joy and intimacy. Through each story, a nuanced portrait of the ""American Dream"" emerges, uplifting the voices of those on its margins."

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Annell L�pez is a Dominican immigrant. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow, her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. L�pez is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and just finished her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel. Chant� McCormic is an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association, she holds a bachelor of science in speech from the prestigious theatre department at Northwestern University. Torian Brackett is a theatre-trained, New York-based voiceover actor who has lent his talents to audiobooks, video games, and audio dramas.

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