In “Glow Hunter,” a teenager named Sara drives around rural Texas looking for psychedelic mushrooms with her friend Bo, with whom she is romantically infatuated. When the narrator left the hospital, he bought model clay so he could continue this therapeutic practice on his own. The hospital offered an art class, where a very calm and kind instructor helped the men channel their feelings into clay creations. “In Our Circle” is a brief story in which an unnamed narrator recalls his brief stint in a mental hospital. In the story's climax, she shows up at Tim's hospital in a drunken state of distress, and he calms her down by lovingly touching and naming each part of her body. These insecurities ultimately drive Sheila to drink excessively. Sheila becomes increasingly obsessed with bodies and diseases as she learns more about Tim's work, and she is particularly fixated on her own, as she is extremely insecure about her weight. The first story, “Guts,” is narrated by a woman named Sheila who is dating a med student named Tim. New York: Vintage/Penguin Random House, 2019.īlack Light is a collection of 12 short stories. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, where she is completing a novel about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: King Parsons, Kimberly. In her debut collection of short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the short story collection Black Light, long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award.
She lives in Portland, where she is the happy mom of three kids adopted from foster care. In addition to being an internationally bestselling author, Denfeld has also worked as a journalist and licensed investigator. After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi-the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children-returns in The Butterfly Girl. Rene Denfeld is the author of the acclaimed novels The Enchanted, The Child Finder, and The Butterfly Girl. The authors will each read and then discuss writing, individual life experiences and influences, and the publishing process, as well as take questions from the audience. We are thrilled to welcome Portland authors Rene Denfeld and Kimberly King Parsons to discuss their most recent books, The Butterfly Girl and Black Light, respectively. Rene Denfeld and Kimberly King Parson, in Conversation
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