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* BOMB Magazine *īlack Light is an unshakable debut, a collection of stories that will grip you under its spell until its closing notes. It's the kind of book that will break your heart while reminding you of the lush possibilities of language. Stories of heartbreak and humor, lust and friendship. Wise and funny, Black Light takes your breath regularly with its elegant observations. Black Light demands the attention of all the reader's senses. Vividly rendered in a Texas setting that bursts off the page like Fourth of July fireworks. Perhaps the greatest strength of this collection lies in its weird, eerie, and sublimely beautiful details of setting and character.

* Kirkus Reviews *Īn incredibly satisfying reading experience. Comparisons have been made to Denis Johnson, Karen Russell, Carmen Maria Machado. Wisdom and humor are so thick on the ground you could find a sentence worth quoting on every page. Just keeps getting better as you turn the pages. * Lit Hub, "The Best Queer Debuts of 2019" * The writing sings at an undeniably pleasing pitch, with many of the sentences hitting such high notes that it feels breathtaking. Kimberly King Parsons' weird, intimate, enchanting debut does a service to the short story form. Every story in this collection is beyond remarkable, and Parsons proves herself to be a gutsy country-punk poet with a keen eye and a stubbornly unique sensibility. Parsons is both unflinching and eloquent in her portrayals of people as they burn and rage. There is a reckless kind of heat to the tender, broken characters in these stories. * Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties *Įxhilarating, enchanting, charming and irresistible. The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 9781838951290 Number of pages: 224 Weight: 190 g Dimensions: 197 x 125 x 15 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWS

With psychedelic energy and deep humanity, Black Light chews over the messiness of being alive, the unsteadiness of hope and the ecstasies of coming of age. Filled with a frenetic longing for connection, her reckless yet resilient heroines exhilarate and charm as they pursue the promise of elsewhere. Over twelve crackling stories, each a glorious escape hatch, she captures the bright ache of first love, the claustrophobic shadows of desire, the obsessive nature of friendship and the rapturous pull of taboo. In this raw, compassionate, debut collection Kimberly King Parsons casts light onto the weird, the intimate, the eerie and the sublimely beautiful with unflinching gaze and ferocious eloquence. I loved every moment of this book.' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesĪ black light illuminates that which the eye doesn't see, uncovering what is hidden in plain sight. 'The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush.