Kimberly King Parsons is the author of a short story collection that delves into complex relationships and the darker aspects of the human experience. Her writing is characterized by a raw honesty and a keen insight into character psychology. Through her distinctive prose, she draws readers into worlds that are both unsettling and hypnotic. Her works often explore themes of identity, desire, and the search for meaning in an often chaotic world.
A young mother, in denial after the loss of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light (longlisted for the National Book Award).
Strange noises. Objects moving. Faint voices. Heavy air. The undeniable feeling of a presence in the room.Kimberly Parsons and Austin Lee have spent their lives dealing with paranormal encounters, but that doesn't mean everything else in their lives was quiet and gentle. See how their struggles with raising a family and growing up intertwine with undeniable contact with the other side in their true accounts from the heartland in Indiana.Mother and son team up to give a raw, gripping account of their heartbreak, tragedies, setbacks, and the love they have for each other as they fight for safety, security, and contentment in their lives. But the last thing the spirits they coexist with want is to leave them in peace.As incredible as their story is, they know it's far from over. They're drawn to the paranormal, just as the paranormal is relentlessly drawn to them.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 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, acerbic, and wise.