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This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad 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.

Critics Review

A brilliant, witty, and subtle novel, written in a most engaging style, with tremendous aptness of language and command of plot
New York Review of Books
Brilliant. . . . Exhilarating. . . . What keeps you reading this critique of language is its language, and our perverse delight in the ingenious abuse of words
New York Times
Author Colson Whitehead
Narrator Peter J Fernandez
Duration 5 hours and 50 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405544948
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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