An inventive debut that recalls the imagination of Aimee Bender and the sardonic wit of Lorrie Moore. The interlocking stories in The Kissing List feature an unforgettable group of young women – Sylvie, Anna, Frances, Maureen – as their lives connect, first during a year abroad at Oxford, then later as they move to New York on the cusp of adulthood. We follow each of them as they navigate the treachery of first dates, temp jobs and roommates, failed relationships and unexpected affairs – all the things that make their lives seem full of possibility, but also rife with potential disappointment. Shot through with laugh-out-loud lines, yet still wrenchingly emotional and resonant, The Kissing List is a book about women who bravely defy expectations and take outrageous chances in the face of a life that might turn out to be anything less than extraordinary.

The Kissing List

Literature & Fiction

Reents, Stephanie

United States

Hogarth

After a post-college year abroad at Oxford, Sylvie moves to New York City to begin a life full of possibility. From new jobs to new friends to new kissing partners, her future is hers to create. But each exciting life she envisions is inevitably shadowed with potential disappointment: the stultifying temp job, the disastrous first date, the surprising and heartbreaking loss of friends, lovers, and roommates. In a modern world that is incresingly unforgiving, Sylvie and the friends she meets along the way test how far they will go to carve out unique and brilliant adult lives for themselves.

The Kissing List: Stories

Stephanie Reents explores the strange absence of perspective and morality at the heart of Blood Meridian Literary Nonfiction. After teaching Cormac McCarthy's bloodiest, most challenging novel to her students for years, Stephanie Reents feels no closer to the strange void at the heart of Blood Meridian than when she began. So she journeys west, following the trail of the historical Glanton Gang across the desert landscape that McCarthy loves. In his archives, she discovers an obscure note about the kid�the novel's enigmatic protagonist�that might explain why this infamous novel is so hard to shake. This is part of Fiction Advocate's Afterwords series.

I Meant to Kill Ye: Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN (...AFTERWORDS)

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The Kissing List

The Kissing List: Stories

I Meant to Kill Ye: Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN (...AFTERWORDS)