title: Kiss Me Someone: Stories
author:  Karen Shepard 
description: Faithlessness among women runs through <em>Kiss Me Someone</em> 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.<br /> - <strong>The New York Times Book Review</strong><br /><br />In 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.<br /> - <strong>Aimee Bender</strong><br /><br />Dark yet sensitive explorations of family and loveof all kindsfrom a masterful writer. The women at the centers of these stories are sharp-edged and complicated and irresistible; you wont be able to look away.<br /> - <strong>Celeste Ng</strong><br /><br />[Shepard] is unflinching in her depictions of self-destructive choices and betrayal as well as friendship and love. One of her characters uses the phrase "ecstatic friction" . . . that term could apply to the whole no-holds-barred collection.<br /> - <strong>Oprah Magazine</strong><br /><br />There 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.<br /> - <strong>Richard Ford</strong><br /><br />Shepard's writing is breathtaking in its ability to capture minor but revelatory personal insights. With her crisp prose and sharp observations, she views characters with devastating and unflinching clarity. . . . A daringly written dissection of raw emotion through short stories about women on the edge and what they long for most.<br /> - <strong>Shelf Awareness</strong><br /><br />Shepards short stories explore relationships and familial love in all their messy complexity. [Her] unapologetically flawed characters make this collection an honest portrayal of womanhood.<br /> - <strong>Ms. Magazine, "Great Reads for Feminists"</strong><br /><br />The stories in Karen Shepard's sharp collection<em>Kiss Me Someone</em>focus on the lives and relationships of womenwho are often mixed-racewith their mothers, daughters, granddaughters, friends, and with men. Dark and often disturbing,<em>Kiss Me Someo</em>negazes unflinchingly at womanhood, isolation, betrayal, sexual assault, infidelity, and the depths of human cruelty.<br /> - <strong>BuzzFeed</strong><br /><br />Shepard 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.<br /> - <strong>Booklist</strong><br /><br />Shepard's work can disturbbut her sharp prose and insights into the human psyche make it worth the read.<br /> - <strong>Kirkus</strong>
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  Kissing an Alaskan Man
  
  
  By Evangeline Kelly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Kissing an Alaskan Man
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Evangeline Kelly
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
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  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
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  This book is a work of fiction. Characters, incidents, places and dialogue are
  drawn from the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be
  construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons,
  living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Praise for the Author
  
  
  “I can’t say there’s a book from Evangeline Kelly I don’t like. I’ve loved
  them all, they usually touch deep cords in my heart, and inspire me in
  different ways."
  
  
  Paty Hinoj