![]() ![]() Texas, dusty and sprawling, houses Parsons’s pining, broken, twangy, and unforgettable characters. “Kimberly King Parsons’s Black Light is savage, celestial, and gorgeous. I just finished this book, and I’m going to read it again right away.” – Amy Hempel, author of Sing to It Parsons opens and ends stories brilliantly. “The bad-ass gals in these terrific stories are all attitude, and as funny and appealing in their imperfection and thwarted desire as you’ll find in any fiction out there. ![]() 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. With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows-those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. ![]() “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 She'll be in conversation with Ruth Galm. The Bindery hosts Kimberly King Parsons for her new story collection, Black Light. ![]()
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