Baby, This is a High-Priced Country: Stories

by Chris Stuck

In his second work of fiction, Chris Stuck concocts a potent collection of twelve wildly inventive stories that explore race and white supremacy, love and war, and the predicament of being a person of color in America. From a Black man living in The Whitest City in America unwittingly befriending a diversity robot, to the oldest employee at White Supremacy Incorporated pondering retirement just as the company goes public, to a film crew trying to complete a doomed production called The Movie, to two lovelorn aliens assessing America only to find it has the same problems as their planet. Stuck's stories showcase extraordinary depth and rich imagination, slyly fusing humor, satire, absurdism, and realism into a powerful, original work of fiction that can only be described as American as fuck.

220 pages, Paperback

Published September 22, 2026

Reviews

[Joanna Pearson · Rating 5 out of 5]

weird and wild, smart and scathing.

[Isabel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Original. Funny. Witty. My favorite stories are The Electronic Negro, Every Marine is a Rifleman, The Humanoids of Love Meadow, NY, and Here Among the Americans.