Your Pick: Selected Stories
by V.S. Kemanis
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Pub Date 23 Nov 2018 | Archive Date 26 Dec 2018
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Description
For fans of literary short fiction, Your Pick is the ideal introduction to the works of V.S. Kemanis.
Carefully selected from the author’s four collections, the dozen stories in this volume are reader favorites. These are the stories that have resonated deepest, bringing tears and smiles, wonder and discovery. Simply, the best. “Kemanis knows how to build a story and keep it going” (Foreword Reviews on Love and Crime: Stories).
From the introduction by the author:
“Dear Readers, I’ve listened to you and learned from you. These are your picks. New Readers, take these stories and escape into worlds unknown yet familiar, imbued with universal situations, conflicts, and emotions. My characters are everyday people navigating the breadth of human experience: love, loss, attraction, repulsion, rejection, acceptance, despair, joy, temptation, loneliness, creativity, self-discovery, failure, success. Enter the lives of these characters and let them stir feelings deep within you.”
Your Pick includes stories from these collections:
Love and Crime: Stories (Top Shelf Book Awards 2018 Finalist): “Rosemary and Reuben” and “Journal Entry, Franklin DeWitt” (first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
Dust of the Universe, tales of family (Commended—SPR Book Awards 2014): “My Latvian Aunt” (a Glimmer Train Top-25 award winner), “Like Love,” “Reckoning,” and “Dust of the Universe”
Everyone But Us, tales of women (The Kindle Book Review Awards 2013 Nominee): “The Cost of Ice Cream,” “Pianissimo, Fortissimo,” and “The Missing and Uninvited”
Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor (BP Readers’ Choice Awards 2014 Nominee): “Malocclusion,” “Gray Zone,” and “Fractals”
Advance Praise
READERS’ FAVORITE (5-Star Rating):
"Rich in metaphors and intensely provocative descriptive passages, these stories are to be tasted, savored, enjoyed and read over and over again.
"Your Pick: Selected Stories is a powerful tribute to this author's mastery of the art of creating not just a good story, but a story that needs to be read many times to appreciate the full power of its presentation. From themes of love (acceptance and rejection), to racial issues, to life's unexplained tragedies, and everything in between, this collection presents a raw view of life...
"The greatest power in this author's writing is the use of description... These stories sing. With both power and conviction."
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/your-pick
RECOMMENDED by The U.S. Review of Books:
"Kemanis' stories run the gamut of experience and emotion, and within virtually every one, a secret is revealed that reinforces or explains behavior. To reveal what's initially hidden would spoil the reader's moment of enlightenment, which occurs less often as shock and more frequently as gradual illumination. What do the stories actually include? The same things that life includes: regret, longing, dissatisfaction, friendships blossoming, relationships falling apart, fear, love, loss, hope--all the things that make life simultaneously mesmerizing and mystifying.
"Kemanis is a writer of substance. She exposes expressions of despair hidden behind masks of joviality. She hears and conveys what people think regardless of what they say. She creates moments of tension, drama, and pathos in the midst of seemingly benign situations. Proof of this is her tale of a tax audit that will break your heart. A wise person once said there are no boring stories, only boring writers. Kemanis authors the former and is the polar opposite of the latter."
http://www.theusreview.com/reviews/Your-Pick-by-V-S-Kemanis.html#.W-mOIOhKjD5
Featured Reviews
Paul F, Reviewer
The author created an anthology of a dozen of her most acclaimed short stories. Laced with a quick-witted, even-tempered style of writing, it set my Kindle ablaze. With a distinguishable voice, the storyline danced to an eclectic array of tales from everyday life. Diversity was the key. The prose was well-written and made for an entertaining read. Being able to gobble up clear and concise down-to-earth mouthfuls from beginning to end in the blink of an eye made for a welcome change of pace.
I offer my gratitude to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.
Alycia C, Educator
loved this as a kid and grabbed it up as fast as I could when I saw there was an adult version! It didn't fail to impress me!
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