Awards

• Long-listed for National Book Award 2019
• Long-listed for The Story Prize 2020

Overview

'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, the National Book Award-nominated Black Light exposes desire's darkest hollows - those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. Taking us from sultry highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories are about 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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Kimberly King Parsons
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.190kg
ISBN:  

9781838951290

ISBN 10:   1838951296
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Reviews

There is a reckless kind of heat to the tender, broken characters in these stories... Parsons is both unflinching and eloquent in her portrayals of people as they burn and rage. * Paris Review * Exhilarating, enchanting, charming and irresistible. This is real-deal fiction. * Los Angeles Times * 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 *

Author Information

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Kimberly King Parsons received her MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, New South, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Joyland, Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere.

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