I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories

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Dazzling. Here is a confident, psychologically astute new writer with a bold new vision. –Garrard Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased

Throughout 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.

In I Know You Know Who I Am, 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.

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SKU: 9780143134282 Category:
Author: Kispert, Peter
Publication Date: 02/11/2020
Publisher: Penguin Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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