{"product_id":"i-know-you-know-who-i-am-stories-paperback","title":"I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Kispert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN ELLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cbr\u003eAN O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE MUST-READ LGBTQ BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eAN ELECTRIC LIT BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA GRINDR QUEER BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA THE ADVOCATE LGBT+ Book You Absolutely Need to Read \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Riveting... \u003cb\u003eEvery lie reveals itself so exquisitely that the parallels become an added pleasure, as soon as we uncover the ways they diverge\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling. Here is a confident, psychologically astute new writer with a bold new vision.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eGarrard Conley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBoy Erased\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout this striking debut collection we meet characters who have lied, who have sometimes created elaborate falsehoods, and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships. In the title story, the narrator, desperate to save a love affair on the rocks, hires an actor to play a friend he invented in order to seem less lonely, after his boyfriend catches on to his compulsion for lying and demands to know this friend is real; in \"Aim for the Heart,\" a man's lies about a hunting habit leave him with an unexpected deer carcass and the need to parse unsettling high school memories; in \"Rorschach,\" a theater producer runs a show in which death row inmates are crucified in an on-stage rendering of the New Testament, while being haunted daily by an unrequited love and nightly by ghosts of his own creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eI Know You Know Who I Am\u003c\/i\u003e, Kispert deftly explores deception and performance, the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, and creates a sympathetic, often darkly humorous, portrait of characters searching for paths to intimacy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Kispert is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eI Know You Know Who I Am \u003c\/i\u003e(Penguin Books, 2020). His fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Electric Literature's \u003c\/i\u003eRecommended Reading, \u003ci\u003eThe Carolina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlice\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753786966304,"sku":"9780143134282","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b77ed0f8b627faf8efff3d53ae1b618.webp?v=1780027474","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/i-know-you-know-who-i-am-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}