{"id":58010,"date":"2019-05-04T01:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58010"},"modified":"2019-05-04T01:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:12:54","slug":"kiss-me-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58010","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Me Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiss Me Someone<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tin House Books<\/a>
\n2017-09-12
\n288 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-941040-75-1
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-941040-76-8<\/p>\n

Karen Shepard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

From the author of The Celestials<\/em><\/a>, a collection of stories that will appeal to readers of Lucia Berlin<\/a>, Mary Gaitskill<\/a>, and Mia Alvar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bold and unapologetic, Karen Shepard\u2019s Kiss Me Someone<\/em> 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\u2019re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard\u2019s 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\u2019s exactly where they belong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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