Kiss Me

Andrew Pyper earned recognition and critical acclaim with Lost Girls. In Kiss Me, his debut collection, he gives us stories of a twenty-something generation, of growing up in the small towns and cities of Canada, and of confronting the universal dilemmas of life in the real world. No tidy coming-of-age collection, Kiss Me is populated with characters who struggle to reach out – sometimes painfully, sometimes comically, and not always successfully – to make sense of their seemingly fractured condition in an equally disaffected universe. First love, first lust, first high, first terrible moment of awareness that in a single moment life can change forever – this is shimmer, profound writing that moves from subtly detailed moments of awakening to brutal, often shattering epiphanies.