Women in Search of Themselves: Three Novels

Akhil Sharma‘s collection of short stories, A Life of Adventure and Delight, provides an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives. Jessie Chaffee‘s vivid, visceral debut, Florence in Ecstasy, gives us an arresting new vision of a woman’s attempt to find meaning―and find herself―in an unstable world. Karen Shepard’s collection of short stories, Kiss Me Someone, is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion.