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 howl-sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise. 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. I loved every moment of this book.” -Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesWith raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows-those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection Title found at these libraries: View more libraries. Black Light: Stories Kimberly King Parsons Vintage: 224 pages 15 Deuel is the author of Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East. “The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. Black Light audiobook (Unabridged) Stories By Kimberly King Parsons Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.
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