Meghan Kenny's Love Is No Small Thing: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) PDF

By Meghan Kenny

Meghan Kenny’s debut assortment, Love isn't any Small Thing, supplies readers an meeting of keenly drawn characters every one navigating the realm trying to find an realizing of affection in its many types and complexities—be it romantic, parental, elusive, or everlasting. A father may perhaps educate his teenage son “Hearts holiday easy,” yet as Kenny’s characters realize, figuring out an incredible fact approximately love isn't any alternative for experiencing it.

In the identify tale, a girl learns of her boyfriend’s infidelity on Halloween evening and contemplates misplaced years, concealments, and the trouble of strolling away. An Idaho cameraman and his cross-dressing, sky-diving son attempt to locate universal flooring in “All those attractive Boys.” a primary date on the Corkscrew Swamp chicken Sanctuary turns into anything else altogether in “Sanctuary,” and in “Heartbreak Hotel,” a father swaps tales of disappointments and losses together with his daughter and an undesirable passenger on a cross-country street journey. all through this assortment, Kenny’s characters attempt to bridge the distance among what they anticipated in their lives and what they've got got. they try to appreciate their very own identities and the price of the relationships they've got or wish, with effects which are humorous and poignant in equivalent measure.

Employing minimalist language and character-driven storytelling, Meghan Kenny grapples with love in all its messiness and uncertainty, revealing very important truths concerning the vagaries of the human middle and setting up Kenny as a colourful new voice within the American literary landscape.

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