{"product_id":"kiss-me-someone-isbn-9781941040751","title":"Kiss Me Someone","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of Fall at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, BuzzFeed, BUST, and more\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBold and unapologetic, Karen Shepard’s \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Someone\u003c\/i\u003e 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.Faithlessness among women runs through \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Someone\u003c\/i\u003e less like a theme than a cactus spine. Injuries may be offhand, deliberate, even set up in childhood like bad genes waiting to switch on. In her hands, all are thrilling and nuanced. . . . This complexity puts Shepard on a shelf with writers like Margaret Atwood . . . and Elena Ferrante.\n—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this captivating collection of stories, Karen Shepard turns her ever keen eye on women, and in her gaze is both love and a startling clarity. Readers of all kinds will find much to relish in this voice— from its storytelling surprises to the insights and sharp observations it extends, over and over, to us on the other side of the page.—Aimee Bender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDark 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Shepard] is unflinching in her depictions of\nself-destructive choices and betrayal as well as friendship and love. One of\nher characters uses the phrase \"ecstatic friction\" . . . that term could apply\nto the whole no-holds-barred collection.—Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is such a wondrous variety in these highly accomplished stories. They are rich with invention, with acute (sometimes alarming) awareness, dazzling insight, and pure, word virtuosity.—Richard Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard's writing is breathtaking in its ability to capture minor but\nrevelatory personal insights. With her crisp prose and sharp observations, she\nviews characters with devastating and unflinching clarity. . . .  A\ndaringly written dissection of raw emotion through short stories about women on\nthe edge and what they long for most.—Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard’s short stories explore relationships\nand familial love in all their messy complexity. [Her] unapologetically flawed characters make this collection an honest portrayal of\nwomanhood.—Ms. Magazine, \"Great Reads for Feminists\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in Karen Shepard's sharp collection \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Someone \u003c\/i\u003efocus on the lives and relationships of women—who are often mixed-race—with their mothers, daughters, granddaughters, friends, and with men. Dark and often disturbing, \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Someo\u003c\/i\u003ene gazes unflinchingly at womanhood, isolation, betrayal, sexual assault, infidelity, and the depths of human cruelty.\n—BuzzFeed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard is so perceptive, we feel as if we are part of the scene ourselves . . . These stories, and the characters that inhabit them, are so vivid, they will surely stay with readers for a good long while.—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard's work can disturb—but her sharp prose and insights into the human psyche make it worth the read.—Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sharp and memorable collection.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepard\nexcels in the rendering of dailiness, with lovely moments of linkage between\ncultures. —Amy Hempel, Bomb Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaren Shepard’s characters vibrate with desire and\ndisappointment, so obdurately individual that a whole world springs to life\naround them.—Andrea Barrett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot since\nVirginia Woolf have the snares and scars of familial relationships been\nrendered with such brilliance, sensitivity, and icy understatement.—Ron HansenKaren Shepard is a Chinese-American born and raised in New York City. She is the author of four novels, \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Women,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Boy’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDon’t I Know You?\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Celestials\u003c\/i\u003e.  Her short fiction has been published in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.  Her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSelf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, where she lives with her husband, novelist Jim Shepard, and their three children.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233299869925,"sku":"NP9781941040751","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781941040751.jpg?v=1767730784","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/kiss-me-someone-isbn-9781941040751","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}