Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
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Publishing Details
Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
By (Author) Kim Fairley
She Writes Press
She Writes Press
9th September 2021
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues
Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
Parenting: advice and issues
Age groups: children
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
306.81
Physical Properties
Hardback
304
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Description
Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vernhis quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smilemade her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude shed imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the ghosts of Verns pasta town, a house, a family, a memory.
Shooting Out the Lights is a real-life mystery that explores the challenges faced in a loving marriage, the ongoing, wrenching aftermath of gun violence and the healing that comes with confronting the past.
Reviews
2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Parenting & Family
2022 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Memoir
. . . riveting and absorbing . . .
Phillip Lopate, author ofA Mother's Tale
A riveting book that builds ominously.
Jerry S. Walden, MD, founder of Physicians for Prevention of Gun Violence
Fairley scores a bull's-eye with her rich and complex memoir,Shooting Out the Lights. Fairley's gift of mesmerizing storytelling and intimately crafted characters make the reader feel as if they are sitting at her kitchen table.Shooting Out the Lightsis a compelling memoir that will have the reader thinking about it long after turning the last page.
Renee Hodges, author ofSaving Bobby
At its best, the author's writing is evocative, and her story is both unique and intriguing. . . . this is a book that many readers will find difficult to put down. A captivating family account that delivers compelling, acutely observant writing.
Kirkus Reviews
Shooting Out the Lightsis an exquisite memoir that analyzes what brought a couple together to face loss and their shattered hopes with enduring love.
ForewordReviews
Author Bio
Kim Fairley was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended the University of Southern California and holds an MFA in Mixed Media from the University of Michigan. Her first book, Boreal Ties: Photographs and Two Diaries of the 1901 Peary Relief Expedition, chronicled the Arctic expedition of her great grandfather, Clarence Wyckoff. Kim lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
