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Blue Land : Stories

Blue Land : Stories

by The University Press of Kentucky

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MPN9781985903586
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"With a voice that is at once sad, beautiful, angry, and deceptively lyric, Collins guides us through the heat-shimmered lowlands of her characters' everyday lives to the bittersweet inner sanctums that enable them to survive.These are trips from which we come away enlightened, emboldened, and sometimes enraged, but always strangely hopeful."—Will Lupens, from the foreword_x000D_CD Collins's debut short story collection invites readers into a world shaped by the smell of tobacco leaves, the sweat of factory work, and the rush of rumors moving through a small town.A world where a besieged farmer attempts to protect herself from her father and comes to recognize that the white-hot fury they share is part of their inheritance.A public defender labors tirelessly for the community and against the forces that have destabilized her own happiness and autonomy.A solitary maintenance man communicates profoundly with animals and nature but is fearful of human connection._x000D_Blue Land offers twenty stories interwoven with complicated characters who struggle with loved ones, the dangers of longing, and the lure of addiction as solace.This collection is a haunting work of Kentucky literature that probes southern and Appalachian life, sexual abuse, belonging, queer identity, and the environment.Collins's stories offer embodied histories of the state, shattering preconceived notions and effectively channeling her characters' voices to a sometimes dismissive, uncomprehending world.But Blue Land is not just for those with generational roots to the region—it is for those who have just arrived, those who left long ago, and those willing to listen.

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