Short stories. Selections

Kiss me someone : stories / Karen Shepard.

First US edition.

Portland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2017.

©2017

236 pages ; 21 cm

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.

Online version: Shepard, Karen. Kiss me someone. First US edition. Portland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2017

English

October 17, 2017