Gutsy, loud, and so very Texas, this one moved me in a tectonic way. Compulsively readable, this book is as much a love letter to language as it is to the natural world, the darkened corners of desire, and the absurdities of girlhood.

This is a first-rate debut.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Black Light is an unshakable debut, a collection of stories that will grip you under its spell until its closing notes. Parsons’s characters are sharp and uncannily observed, bound up in elastic and electrifying prose. Parsons is both unflinching and eloquent in her portrayals of people as they burn and rage.” -Lauren Kane, The Paris Review “Parsons’s debut crackles with the frenetic energy of the women who stalk its pages. “There is a reckless kind of heat to the tender, broken characters in these stories. Black Light contains the type of storytelling that resonates somewhere deep, in the well of memory that repudiates nostalgia. 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. 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. 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. Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. You can read this before Black Light PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Black Light written by Kimberly King Parsons which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons