Bibliograph

Kiss me someone, stories, Karen Shepard

Type

Label

Kiss me someone, stories, Karen Shepard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Kiss me someone

Oclc number

975085086

Responsibility statement

Karen Shepard

Sub title

stories

Summary

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

Popular girls -- Fire horse -- Light as a feather -- Don't know where, don't know when -- Girls only -- Jerks -- The mothers -- A fine life -- Kiss me someone -- Magic with animals -- Rescue

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