“Sometimes at night I think about whales loose in the ocean living their lives, and it upsets me,” Kimberly King Parsons writes in her debut novel, We Were the Universe (Knopf). Hilarious, profane, ...

If you do an image search for Wink, Texas, you’ll find pictures of a wee Roy Orbison Museum, aerial photos of two massive sinkholes, and not much else. The small West Texas hamlet, about eight miles ...

Kit, the narrator of Kimberly King Parsons’s “We Were the Universe,” is not OK. This may or may not be apparent to the people she encounters in her daily life: the staff at Tiny Toads, where she takes ...

Portland author Kimberly King Parsons published her debut novel, “We Were the Universe,” last year. On Monday, her book took home the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards ...

Lubbock native Kimberly King Parsons says that her debut novel, We Were the Universe, "is about Texas, motherhood and psychedelics." It is also, she says, about sisterhood, grief, nostalgia and how ...

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In the spunky debut novel from Parsons (following the collection Black Light), a 20-something woman deals with grief and the demands of motherhood by maintaining a prodigious porn habit. Before Kit ...

Why She Matters: Parsons, a William Faulkner fan from Lubbock, Texas, is one of today’s buzziest authors. Her first short story collection, Black Light, was nominated for the 2019 National Book Award, ...