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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, by Kate Blackwell- Amazon Sales Rank: #513715 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-04
- Released on: 2015-05-04
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From Publishers Weekly Blackwell's debut collection vividly draws on the Southern storytelling tradition in its 12 gentle but unsentimental stories. In "My First Wedding," an unnamed narrator remembers her first peek at the rituals of Southern bridehood when her cousin Augusta married a Yankee. "Heartbeatland" is Anne Tyler territory: Anne and David, transplants to North Carolina who call themselves "the Schoolmaster" and "Princess Annabel," develop sarcastic nicknames for their neighbors, but when David dies, Anne finds herself simultaneously relying on and distrusting the "neigh-boors." Blackwell illustrates her stories with sharp and sometimes unsettling word snapshots: a past-its-prime piñata disgorges "misshapen" candy "mottled with mold"; a miserably pregnant woman plods "around the garden, holding her enormous stomach, her legs like an elephant's." Even "Pepper Hunt," a disturbing five-page story about a divorced man and his daughter meeting in a luncheonette, is a pinpoint novella with fully drawn characters. If Blackwell has one unifying theme, it's how ritual both distances people and enables them to live together. This shrewd collection should appeal to fans of contemporary Southern short story masters like Tim Gautreaux and John Biguenet. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist Engaging characters face the tangles of life—marriage, adultery, malfeasance, aging, pregnancy—in this adroit debut collection. Twelve finely crafted stories, based in the South, are grounded in the ordinary yet clarify nuances with intimate angles. In the standout "Heartbeatland," Anne and her husband have recently moved to North Carolina and come up with sardonic nicknames for people in their new neighborhood. Yet, when an unexpected death occurs, Anne finds that she must rely on their neighbors to come to terms with the tragedy. "What We Do for Love" showcases a delicately involved triangle between Linda, a weaver; Tanner, Linda's best friend from childhood; and Jack, Tanner's husband. Backdropped against a love-crossed murder trial, the underlying relationships simmer with affecting poignancy. In "The Minaret," Miles and Bunny, a husband and wife on vacation in Greece, strike up a relationship with a younger couple that yields a provocative outcome. Although a few stories evince a distancing imbalance, narrative strengths lie in Blackwell's clever perceptions and sharp insight. Strauss, Leah Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review "These are necessary stories, which often possess a quality of devastating clarity all too infrequent in short fiction. Each is a rare entree into the ordinary everyday world without the added special effects of all-consuming tragedy. This collection is prime proof that there is nothing, nothing like a collection of short stories to offer an almost Cubist perspective on the way women live." - Cynthia Shearer "You most definitely WILL remember this extraordinary collection. All of Blackwell's finely crafted stories move as easily as an overheard conversation about what is too often hushed in the human heart." - Robert Bausch "In these remarkably intelligent and quirky stories Kate Blackwell sweeps the reader into a tableau as vivid as a Dutch painting, both startling and alive. These are harshly honest and generous stories embroidered with humor." - Patricia Griffith "Throughout this fine first collection, there is a fascinating tension between limpid prose and incisive truth. Kate Blackwell tends to deal with secrets - an unfulfilled desire, a denied knowledge, a hidden love. She writes with especial power and insight about the parts of themselves women give up - or bury - when they marry." - Joyce Johnson"
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Another Best New Fiction Book of the Week Pick By Vickie I. Fang Kate Blackwell’s debut collection of short stories takes us to the South, but it’s not Flannery O’Connor’s outsized Gothic South, nor is it the catty ladies and lush magnolias South of popular entertainment. It’s just a warm, intimately described world, a little removed from rat race ambitions and rapidly changing pop culture. Like the writing itself, the setting doesn’t intrude, but instead allows the characters to be individuals, slowly discovering themselves in the crucible of ancient dramas: death of a loved one, aging, childbirth, adultery, changing expectations.The discoveries they make are all different. Some are venerable Southern tales, told with a fresh voice. In The Secret Lives of Peonies, a woman who was raised by a hostile, sex-shaming mother finds that an affair she describes as “healthy, human, even obscurely right” hasn’t been right at all. Instead of expanding her world, she loses even her great love of its everyday beauty. Mother’s humiliating voice reaches across the years in triumphant reproach.In The Queen of May, we see the complex relationship between a wealthy old white woman and her favorite black waiter. It’s unbalanced and artificial, redolent of centuries-old injustices and yet still marked by genuine fondness on one side and genuine kindness on the other. While the drunk old lady is being driven home by the waiter, her lonely daughter-in-law dances naked on the lawn, watched from the shadows by her own husband. “She had no idea what would happen when the dance was over – what would he say? What would she? . . . She let that thought go as she went on turning and weaving across the lawn, dancing only for him whose clapping hands echoed the beating in her bare and hopeful breast.” The losses are coming for both these faded women, but they hold on to what moments they can, even when they can’t even imagine a future.Other stories struggle with the limits of understanding and action. In one of my favorites, Heartbeatland, a young widow slowly discovers the richness of the life her husband had lived outside of their marriage, as she begins to admit to herself how impoverished their actual home life was. In the simple, intimate language of a domestic story, Heartbeatland is a profoundly moving meditation on the nature of human consciousness. In Carpe Diem, we begin to wonder how much better off we are even if we do understand. In this story, a middle aged nursery school teacher sees the man a lonely little boy will become and understands in an instant the childhood wounds her own lover still carries.Every story in this entire collection is lively, beautiful, and rich with meaning. Perhaps most importantly of all, they are imbued with great love for the people who inhabit them. Whether Blackwell is telling us stories of lived or imagined lives, she is clearly championing the value of people who might otherwise be overlooked. As she says in My First Wedding, “I regret that my own daughters never knew her and would not now easily understand if I tried to tell them about her. They would find her life banal, I am sure, and as distant from their own as those intimate interiors by Hals and Vermeer. I, however, have learned to appreciate the beauty of still lives, 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 anything?”Best New Fiction reviews outstanding new novels and short story collections so that its readers will have a ready guide to fascinating contemporary books. For more reviews, to to http://bestnewfiction.wordpress.com
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. you won't remember this By Diana Zumas A poetic, profound, and masterly crafted collection of stories. Blackwell's writing blends the elegance and entertainment of southern storytelling with her own unique voice. It was one of those books to which I wanted to return and didn't want to put down. No story disappointed.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. SOUTHERN STORYTELLING By gayle pace REVIEWThe author's debut collection of Southern storytelling in 12 stories. In "My First Wedding" narrator unnamed recalls the first look at the wedding of Southern bride hood. This was when August, her cousin married a Yankee. Ann and David go to live in North Carolina in "Heartbeatland". They are known as "the Schoolmaster" and "Princess Annabel". One of the disturbing 5 page stories is "Pepper Hunt". A story about a divorced man and his daughter having lunch. There is one uniting theme in these 12 short stories and that is how ritual allows both distance between people and also allows them to live together. This group of stories was written by a very talented author and should make fans of Southern short stories very interested and entertained. I would recommend this collection of Ms. Blackwell's stories to anyone who loves southern storytelling, elegance and entertainment along with so much more. This is one of those books that you want to keep on your shelf to read and re-read. To enjoy over and over.I was given a complimentary copy of YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS from the author, Kate Blackwell and Pump Up Your Book Virtual Tours for my view of the book.
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