 You Won't Remember This, Kate Blackwell's memorable short story collection, will be available in paperback and ebook on May 1, 2015. Fortunately for readers, the 12 stories are the same as the hardcover edition, but the cover is new and so are the formats. The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift is to shine a light on these universal situations with such lucidity, it is as if one has never seen them before. “Kate Blackwell has what Flannery O’Connor called ‘a talent for humanity.’ In each story, she looks at life with a direct gaze and writes in elegant, measured tones with beautiful, melancholy humor. The collection surely derives its honesty and power and music from the great Southern tradition—but in its sheer comprehension and passion, it is universal as well.” - Howard Norman, National Book Award finalist for The Bird Artist and Northern Lights “Kate Blackwell is a wonderful and very perceptive writer who knows more about love, and more about loss, than most of us ever will. These stories about all sorts of Southern men and women are both funny and sad, and always subtly but deeply sympathetic.” - Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for Foreign Affairs, author most recently of The Last Resort Available for pre-order soon.
Cover design by Al Pranke, amp13
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