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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.
In “My First Wedding,” a twelve-year-old girl attends her cousin’s Deep South wedding, where she discovers both mystery and disillusionment and, in the end, finds she’s not immune to her family’s myth of romantic love. In “Heartbeatland,” when a young woman’s husband dies suddenly, she refuses to sell his Jeep to an importuning gay neighbor. The more she clings to the Jeep—and to the memory of her beloved David—the more he becomes someone she doesn’t recognize. In “Queen of the May,” a former belle looks for ways to assuage her loneliness in her large new house in the empty Carolina sandhills.
You Won't Remember This edition by Kate Blackwell Literature Fiction eBooks
I just reread Kate Blackwell’s “you won’t remember this,” a treasure of a short story collection. If you are from the South, it will instantly take you home and if you’re not, you will be at home, eavesdropping on characters in their intimate dramas. You will be on the screened porch on a summer evening gossiping about small and giant issues of family and friends with characters who are often pining for something beyond the life they are living but uncertain what that is. Kate’s prose is invariably graceful, and her insights poignant and surprising as when the overweight Queen of May dances naked on her big suburban back lawn on a spring night. In “My First Wedding” the narrator observes, “Time had swept us so far beyond those moments,” as she tries to weave the past into a coherent version of herself and her family. “I, however, have learned to appreciate the beauty of still lives,” she says, “and it saddens me to think they will be lost. For who will remember women like my mother, my aunt, and Augusta. Who will remember any of us who live so hidden, so far from nearly everything?” she asks. We will, readers of Kate Blackwell’s collection. We will remember.Product details
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You Won't Remember This edition by Kate Blackwell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
There is just something 'other-worldly' about Southern writing, isn't there? You could change the setting and the characters to a Northern venue, but that would eliminate that spark, that lazy tartness-on-the-tongue that comes from reading 'southern.' With my northern sensibilities, I saw gunshots and cruelty at every climax, only to be deceived by a slow, deceptively-normal unraveling of the story line. It takes a while to slip into this pace, but quite worth it.
Heads up to Flannery O'connor, Shirlley Jackson, O Henry etal. Reserve a throne in your pantheon of the masters of the short story, for your peer- Kate Blackwell. You will recognize the characters that grace these pages. Perhaps by merely glancing in the mirror. Some writers derive story lines from what they observe. Ms. Blackwell creates tales that run the gamut of human emotions because she writes(one senses)what she feels. YWRT is a jewel box filled with 12 gems. Read them and you will remember them...but...read them again anyway.
An elegant collection. The title story is a classic. Alice Adams, Elizabeth Spencer, and Richard Bausch are some of the writers who come to mind when I'm looking for comparisons, . hospitable writers who invite you to sit a spell on the verandah, and learn hard truths about the human heart and the limits of love.
Kate Blackwell is an accomplished, polished fiction writer; she is also a short story writing instructor so she knows what she’s doing. In her short story collection, You Won’t Remember This, she establishes a sense of place immediately; you are either taken to a farm with apple orchard in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, an upscale gated-community in eastern North Carolina, a diner in Pittsburgh, etc. She examines the nature of sexual relationships in several of her stories. What is the attraction or spark in “George, Nadia, Blaise” and is that enough for the long haul. She examines how her characters cope with growing older and reigniting their earlier passions (e.g., “Queen of the May”). In her story, “My First Wedding,” she pays tribute to serious readers and describes the comfort of reading and how an older relative can be an inspiration to a young girl to nurture her in the value of reading. Her stories are elegant and flawlessly written. She has a bit of Virginia Woolf in the subtle reflections of her characters. Highly recommend this book by Kate Blackwell.
I enjoyed this book of short stories very much! Rather than stories with a beginning, middle and end, what we get are twelve thin slices of life. In each story, the author puts us inside the mind of a sharply drawn character. For example, in "Heartbeat Land", a woman whose husband died suddenly, learns at the memorial service that she didn't know him as well as she thought she did. Or, in "The Obi Tree", we are privy to the personal thoughts of a young husband as his beautiful wife is dying of brain cancer. Or, in "Queen of the May", we are up close and personal as a bored and lonely housewife, depressed over her weight gain and husband's indifference, does the unexpected. Each story was very well written and I felt the emotions as that person dealt with life.
This book will not be everyone's cup of tea. Not everyone will enjoy these snippets of life. I didn't "get" a couple of the stories (and that's the only reason I gave this book four stars instead of five). But these stories were so thought-provoking, I may read them again (And I don't 're-read books!). Kudos to Kate Blackwell for such well-crafted stories!
I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.
I'm a big fan of short stories and I think a good one will linger with you long after you finish the story. Every story made me continue to question what happened to the characters after I read the last word. Most of the stories were insightful and relatable. I felt as if a friend were telling me a story while enjoying a glass of wine. The only reason I didn't give the book 5 stars was because I'm not sure I would read it again but I did enjoy it tremendously and would highly recommend to a fellow lover of short stories.
These are literate, polished, elegant, and engaging stories. The characters are well-drawn, fully realized and unique. I found myself reading these stories one after another, finishing almost all in one sitting--I found them irresistible--each one like a perfect small gift from an author who knows her craft, and uses it to explore vital, complicated human beings in situations that are strikingly authentic. I received a complimentary copy of this book from Reading Deals in exchange for an honest review. This is one I can recommend to all without reservation.
I just reread Kate Blackwell’s “you won’t remember this,” a treasure of a short story collection. If you are from the South, it will instantly take you home and if you’re not, you will be at home, eavesdropping on characters in their intimate dramas. You will be on the screened porch on a summer evening gossiping about small and giant issues of family and friends with characters who are often pining for something beyond the life they are living but uncertain what that is. Kate’s prose is invariably graceful, and her insights poignant and surprising as when the overweight Queen of May dances naked on her big suburban back lawn on a spring night. In “My First Wedding” the narrator observes, “Time had swept us so far beyond those moments,” as she tries to weave the past into a coherent version of herself and her family. “I, however, have learned to appreciate the beauty of still lives,” she says, “and it saddens me to think they will be lost. For who will remember women like my mother, my aunt, and Augusta. Who will remember any of us who live so hidden, so far from nearly everything?” she asks. We will, readers of Kate Blackwell’s collection. We will remember.
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