LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ôThe stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this book.ö ùCarmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desireÆs darkest hollowsùthose hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howlùsharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise.
| Author: Kimberly King Parsons |
| Publisher: Vintage |
| Publication Date: Aug 13, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: 224 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback/Fiction |
| ISBN-10: 0525563504 |
| ISBN-13: 9780525563501 |
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