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A review by morganamberj
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
5.0
My God, what a wonderful set of short stories.
Kathleen's beautiful language had me reading the same lines/passages/stories/words over and over again. She made me think of my own life more poetically. My vocabulary has improved for the better, but she also made me think.
The title story was intense and hard for me to decipher. I had to Google an explanation and even then, people really couldn't put it into simpler terms. I think that's the beauty of Kathleen's work. It's ambiguous yet straightforward. There's space to put your own thoughts in between the lines.
This book is full of tragedy, Blackness, womanhood, sexuality and joy. The first story literally made me gasp aloud, and it was only 3 pages long.
If you like a quick read (but please, take your time with this one. Absorb her messages, her prose) then read this! I cannot emphasize it enough.
Kathleen's beautiful language had me reading the same lines/passages/stories/words over and over again. She made me think of my own life more poetically. My vocabulary has improved for the better, but she also made me think.
The title story was intense and hard for me to decipher. I had to Google an explanation and even then, people really couldn't put it into simpler terms. I think that's the beauty of Kathleen's work. It's ambiguous yet straightforward. There's space to put your own thoughts in between the lines.
This book is full of tragedy, Blackness, womanhood, sexuality and joy. The first story literally made me gasp aloud, and it was only 3 pages long.
If you like a quick read (but please, take your time with this one. Absorb her messages, her prose) then read this! I cannot emphasize it enough.