Kiss Me Someone: Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781941040751)

Bold and unapologetic, Karen Shepard's Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex, but for all of their rationality they're drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard's stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters, fiercely true to themselves, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it's exactly where they belong.

Author: Karen Shepard
ISBN-10: 1941040756
ISBN-13: 9781941040751
Publisher: Tin House Books
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 09/29/2017