Black Light

With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. 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.

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, bitter, and wise. Black Light contains the type of storytelling that resonates somewhere deep, in the well of memory that repudiates nostalgia.

Cu ferocitate cruda, poetica, Kimberly King Parsons expune cele mai intunecate goluri ale dorintei - acele locuri ascunse in care majoritatea dintre noi se tem sa priveasca. In aceasta colectie de debut de nuvele extrem de perceptive si brutal nesentimentale, Parsons lumineaza durerea primei iubiri, banalitatea urasirii de sine, flagelul dependentei, mitul casatoriei si magia si inevitabila deziluzie a copilariei. autostrazi fierbinti din Texas pana la bucatarii reci de familie, de la libertatea motelurilor cu plata la ora pana la claustrofobia caminelor scolare private, aceste povesti izbucnesc de pe pagina cu un urlet primordial - cu voce ascutita, amara si inteleapta.