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For Sale by Owner: Stories
by
Kelcey Parker (Goodreads Author)
Bound to the bustling "big houses" of contemporary suburbia, the women in Kelcey Parker’s tales of twisted domesticity weave secrets, soccer balls, kisses, and dreams into the fabric of an evolving American subculture. Suburban sprawl transcends geography as children, husbands, and all things domestic overpopulate the interior landscapes of young divorcees, best-friends-fo
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Paperback, 144 pages
Published
February 1st 2011
by Kore Press
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While Parker's collection consists almost entirely of tales of domesticity, the reader is never bored or lulled by anything resembling the ordinary. In fact, the stories are utterly distinct, each distinguished from the others not just by specific characters and details, but through the voice, form, and style. The story "Possession" for example, is divided into segments bearing titles like "Laundry," "Holiday," and "Toothbrush," which reflect different aspects of daily life.
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Kelcey Parker’s debut collection of stories will leave you feeling, among other things, very surprised. The surprise at work is not because of the material she works with—the seemingly quotidian bricks of the domestic Midwestern suburbs—but in the way she infuses those materials with a truly unique velocity and darkly playful touch. The suburbs and soccer moms and unfaithful husbands aren’t the ones you read about in books or watch on sitcoms, but the ones you yourself drive past every day and s...more
For Sale By Owner lets us see--often hilariously--the doubts and mishaps that swirl around the isolated modern family. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. I laughed aloud many times but these stories also made me think hard about what we expect from families,and how often our expectations fall short.
These are odd stories in the vein of Kelly Link or Kevin Wilson-- not quite magical realism, but definitely weird. "Quirky" is a word that Parker probably hears a lot. But they're also grounded in the domestic--almost all of the protagonists are young wives and mothers, struggling to be happy in the lives they've created.
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Absolutely loved these smart, sly, inventive stories.
Ms. Parker's collection of stories is dazzling. They are true and painful and funny. She doesn't pull any punches about the joy and heartbreak that go hand in hand with love, marriage and children.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
~Emily Dickinson
Kelcey Parker is the author of FOR SALE BY OWNER (Kore Press), winner of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction. Her next book, LILIAN...more
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Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
~Emily Dickinson
Kelcey Parker is the author of FOR SALE BY OWNER (Kore Press), winner of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction. Her next book, LILIAN...more
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