Kiss me someone
Subtitle: stories
By: Karen Shepard
Edition: First English edition. First US edition.
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781941040751
Work titles: Short stories
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Popular girls --; title: Fire horse --; title: Light as a feather --; title: Don't know where, don't know when --; title: Girls only --; title: Jerks --; title: The mothers --; title: A fine life --; title: Kiss me someone --; title: Magic with animals --; title: Rescue.