Wetsuit
by Kim Chinquee

Description

Another in the Ravenna series of fabulous short fictions by Kim Chinquee.  Per James Thomas (editor of Flash Fiction, Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction International): “This book is brilliant, every bit of it.  One delight after another.  Chinquee makes the English language sing–amazing sentences, beautiful lines, incredible strokes.  Dazzling.”

From Aimee Parkison review now available at Rain Taxi: ”Kim Chinquee’s Wetsuit takes hold of the reader, making one feel there is a fine line between fiction and real- ity. Precisely written in a clean, clear, minimal- ist style, these brief stories are about the ways we protect ourselves from pain while immersing ourselves in life the way a fierce swimmer immerses herself in the deepest of waters.  These flash fictions stand on their own, but if one envisions the women in the stories as the same woman, they also have a sense of continuity, so it is easy to read the book as an episodic short novel with flash chapters.”

See the full review on the Rain Taxi website.

Also see the interview by Nancy Stohlman at:  https://nancystohlman.com/2020/01/02/so-you-wrote-a-book-kim-chinquee/?fbclid=IwAR3c_xk2iVF1bc5xyQtp4b8Ff4CyQm19iBY2xYLQ3uFyL2DxnZJEwPRBHs0