Book Review: You Won't Remember This by Kate Blackwell

In this powerful collection of stories, author Kate Blackwell has opened hearts to deep human emotion. Her characters are so genuine they seem real. There are struggles: a southern bride with her list of books pining for a lost love; a mysterious letter telling of an illicit affair; a single mother trying to stay clean.

Eloquently written, deeply moving, and filled with raw emotion, You Won't Remember This is literary fiction at its best. Lovers of Southern fiction, women's fiction, and exquisite short stories will be drawn to this book's pages.

Highly recommended.

Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Bacon Press Books (April 24, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0986306010
ISBN-13: 978-0986306013

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• You Won’t Remember This is available at Amazon.
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• Read excerpt here.

I received a copy of this book through Pump Up Your Book virtual book tours. This review contains my honest opinions, which I have not been compensated for in any way.

Book Spotlight: You Won't Remember This by Kate Blackwell

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.

For More Information

• You Won’t Remember This is available at Amazon.
• Purchase book at Bacon Press Books.
• Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
• Read excerpt here.

I haven't quite finished reading this short story collection yet, so I figured I would post a spotlight today and my review on Friday. It's spring season for the housing market, so my time is a bit more limited than usual. 

What I have read was very enjoyable and engaging. Can't wait to finish this one. Check back on Friday for my full review.

KATE BLACKWELL worked as a journalist and editor before turning full-time to fiction. Her first collection, YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS, was published in hardback in 2007 by Southern Methodist University Press.  Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Carve, The Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, Sojourner, and So To Speak. She lives in Washington, DC.

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