<b>A wrenchingly honest novel, full of dark wit and feral delight, about a new mother navigating the trippy, uncharted wilderness between love and grief</b>

Jenny Offill, author of Weather

<b>With psychological perspicuity and psychedelic inventiveness, Kimberly King Parsons reveals the shapeshifting nature of grief, the wiliness of desire, the fluidity of linear time, and the truth that what begs to be felt will always find a way to be felt.</b>

Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley

<b>To read Kimberly King Parsons is to fall in love with the world and all its absurdities. <i>We Were the Universe</i> is horny, wickedly funny, brutal in its exploration of motherhood and loss, the difficulty of keeping yourself from living in the past. At its core though, Parsons' debut is achingly tender, beautiful and comforting in its assertion that coming of age is a lifelong process.</b>

Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl

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<b>Sexy, exuberant, hilarious, and deep, <i>We Were the Universe</i> is a page-turning voyage into the churning waters of early motherhood and lurking grief. Utterly breathtaking to the final moment.</b>

Chelsea Bieker, author of Godshot

<i><b>We Were the Universe</b></i><b> is a grief-and-lust-and-breastmilk saturated psychedelic journey, a story told in the eternal present of an acid trip and the </b><b>spiralling</b><b> everyday life of a young Texan mother, pushing her daughter's stroller around an unspeakable loss. This novel is a tonal masterpiece, a record I want to spin forever, and I feel so lucky that I can return to its deep magic</b><b>.</b>

Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

<b>Witty... Singular... Entertaining. The ride could not be more rewarding; Parsons's transgressive boldness allows us to feel the soul in places that moderation simply cannot reach... She has gifted us with a profound, gutsy tale of grief's dismantling power </b>

New York Times

<b>Hilarious, profane, and profound all at once... Horny and haunted... Parsons has written one of my favourite short story collections ever, and now one of my favourite novels</b>

Vanity Fair

'Feral' Jenny Offill, author of Weather'Horny' Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl'Hilarious' Chelsea Bieker, author of Mad WomanThe trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend away. They'll soak in hot springs, then drink too much, like old times. Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she's lost lately: her wildness, her independence and - most heartbreakingly of all - her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago. When she returns home, Kit tries to settle the routine of caring for her irrepressible young daughter. But in the secret recesses of Kit's mind, she's fantasizing about the hot playground mum and reminiscing about the band she used to be in with her sister - and how they'd go out to the desert after shows and drop acid. Keyed into everything that might distract her from her surfacing grief, Kit begins to spiral, and as her already thin boundaries between reality and fantasty blur, she starts to wonder: is Julie really gone?
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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).
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781838951344
Publisert
2024-07-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
470 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Biographical note

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Kimberly King Parsons won the 2020 National Magazine Award for fiction. Her debut collection, Black Light (2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and her fiction has been published in The Paris Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner and children. We Were the Universe is her first novel.