Black Light: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525563501)

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

"The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this book." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows--those 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 howl--sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise.

Author: Kimberly King Parsons
ISBN-10: 0525563504
ISBN-13: 9780525563501
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019