Kiss Me Someone: Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Contemporary Women
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Author: Karen Shepard ISBN: 9781941040768
Publisher: Tin House Books Publication: September 12, 2017
Imprint: Tin House Books Language: English
Author: Karen Shepard
ISBN: 9781941040768
Publisher: Tin House Books
Publication: September 12, 2017
Imprint: Tin House Books
Language: English

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Best Book of Fall at *The **Washington Post, *BuzzFeed, BUST, and more

"Dark yet sensitive explorations of family and love—of all kinds—from a masterful writer. The women at the centers of these stories are sharp-edged and complicated and irresistible; you won’t be able to look away." —Celeste Ng**

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.

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**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Best Book of Fall at *The **Washington Post, *BuzzFeed, BUST, and more

"Dark yet sensitive explorations of family and love—of all kinds—from a masterful writer. The women at the centers of these stories are sharp-edged and complicated and irresistible; you won’t be able to look away." —Celeste Ng**

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.

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