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« With a voice that is at once sad, beautiful, angry, and deceptively lyric, Collins guides us through the heat-shimmered lowlands of her characters’ everyday lives to the bittersweet inner sanctums that enable them to survive. These are trips from which we come away enlightened, emboldened, and sometimes enraged, but always strangely hopeful. »—Will Lupens, from the foreword

CD Collins’s debut short story collection invites readers into a world shaped by the smell of tobacco leaves, the sweat of factory work, and the rush of rumors moving through a small town. A world where a besieged farmer attempts to protect herself from her father and comes to recognize that the white-hot fury they share is part of their inheritance. A public defender labors tirelessly for the community and against the forces that have destabilized her own happiness and autonomy. A solitary maintenance man communicates profoundly with animals and nature but is fearful of human connection.

Blue Land offers twenty stories interwoven with complicated characters who struggle with loved ones, the dangers of longing, and the lure of addiction. This collection is a haunting work of Kentucky literature that probes southern and Appalachian life, sexual abuse, the nature of belonging, queer identity, and the environment. Collins’s stories offer embodied histories of the state, shattering preconceived notions and effectively rendering characters whose voices are sometimes lost in a dismissive, uncomprehending world. But Blue Land is not just for those with generational roots in the region—it is for those who have just arrived, those who left long ago, and those willing to listen.

LangueenVersionlivre numériqueDate de sortie initiale27 janvier 2026Format ebookEPUB3

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The University Press Of Kentucky

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