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Kerry Langan's stories capture those fleeting moments when a child experiences a revelation about the adult world, often a disturbing portent. She is equally fascinated with childhood experiences that haunt adults and become more significant with the passing of time. Although her characters and settings are highly realistic and often humorous, Langan reveals how pain distorts one's world, how lives can be tenuously held together by secrets and memories. Her characters are not allowed to suffer delusions; they learn hard, undeniable truths about themselves. Where others would look away, Langan does not flinch.
ISBN 978-0-9796552-7-2
228 pp.
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"These are wonderful, heartfelt stories - clear-eyed, masterful, and engaging in every detail. Kerry Langan knows the magic of empathy and of smart storytelling, and I know she will fill you with gratitude, as she did me, for the care and grace she has brought to this beautiful work."
--Joe David Bellamy, former member of National Book Critic Circle Board of Directors, author of Suzie Sinzinnati.\
"With delicate brushstrokes, Kerry Langan paints fine miniaturist portraits of a variety of young, likeable protagonists, all of whom yearn to be seen, heard, and understood as they experience the revelations of maturity and the joy and fragility of life. Kerry Langan's Only Beautiful is sometimes humorous, sometimes bittersweet, and always seductive in the best sense of the word. Hers is a new and original voice, and Wising Up Press has done us all a great favor by publishing her lovely and insightful debut collection."
--Janice Eidus, author of The War of the Rosens, Urban Bliss, The Celibacy Club, and Vito Loves Geraldine.
Kerry Langan is a writer and editor living in Oberlin, Ohio. Her fiction has appeared regularly in literary journals in the United States, Canada and Asia over the last thirty years, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. Her non-fiction has appeared in Working Mother and in Shifting Balance Sheets: Women’s Stories of Naturalized Citizenship & Cultural Attachment.
Other Wising Up Press books by Kerry Langan:
Worthy: Stories & Novellas
My Name Is Your Name & Other Stories
Live Your Life & Other Stories
