{"product_id":"the-four-wives-and-five-deaths-of-richard-milford","title":"The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford \/\/ A Novel (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the multi-award-winning, National Book Award–longlisted, “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders) story collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeads of the Colored People,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecomes a sly, spry, tall tale of a debut novel about the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the cacophony of true stories a small town can tell about itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRich Milford is dead. At last.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe find ourselves in Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Massacre of 1921. For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. Now, on the ominous brink of the Great Depression and at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford is an infamous moonshiner and womanizer and, it seems, finally crossed the wrong person at the wrong time. He’s dead and buried with no one but his women to mourn him but a question remains: who killed him, and why?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTop suspects are his four “wives,” Lally, Sophronia, Georgette, and Vivianne. But as their stories burst to light in a volley of competing narratives, the very idea of a true story comes apart before our eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an electric follow-up to her beloved and critically acclaimed debut collection, Nafissa Thompson-Spires once again serves up a brilliant distillation of front-of-mind happenings—think, cults of personality, capitalism run amok in politics, and rampant societal distrust—this time magicked into taut historical fiction structured as a stupefying line dance. In her uniquely powerful, humorous manner, Thompson-Spires takes on the interdependent clash of the traditional and the new-fangled in this genre-bending, gob-smackingly excellent debut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca\u003e.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNafissa Thompson-Spires\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the award-winning, National Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003elonglisted short story collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Heads of the Colored People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She earned a doctorate in English from ­­­­Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from ­­­­­­the University of Illinois. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York m\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eagazine’s “The Cut,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Ploughshares,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619–2019\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among other publications. In addition to a debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four Wives and Five Deaths of Rich Milford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her young adult debut is forthcoming. She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Grant and a 2019 Whiting Award. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Scribner\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: October 13, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 176\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781501168048\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.8 lb Wt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nafissa Thompson-Spires","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Oct 13 2026) Hardcover","offer_id":48283405877483,"sku":"9781501168048","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9781501168048.jpg?v=1778984293","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/the-four-wives-and-five-deaths-of-richard-milford","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}