I Want To Show You More

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'Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable ... Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O'Connor.' - James Wood, New York Times Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humour, Jamie Quatro's debut short-story collection is a stunning and subversive portrait of modern infidelity, faith, and family. Set around Lookout Mountain on the border of Georgia and Tennessee, Quatro's hypnotically revealing stories range from the traditional to the fabulist as they expose lives torn between spirituality and sexuality in the New American South. These fifteen linked tales confront readers with dark theological complexities, fractured marriages, and mercurial temptations. Throughout the collection, a mother in her late thirties relates the various stages of her affair while other characters lay bare their own notions of God, illicit sex, raising children, and running: a wife comes home with her husband to find her lover's corpse in their bed; marathon runners on a Civil War battlefield must carry phallic statues and are punished if they choose to unload their burdens; a girl's embarrassment over attending a pool party with her quadriplegic mother turns to fierce devotion under the pitying gaze of other guests; and a husband asks his wife to show him how she would make love to another man. Sultry, acute, startlingly intimate, and enticingly cool, I Want To Show You More is the thrilling debut of an exhilarating new voice in American fiction.

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Subtle, sexy, and reflective . . . Quatros stories [have] led some to compare her work to that of Walker Percy and Flannery OConnor . . . and of Lorrie Moores pulverizing wit . . . Theres so much in these stories thats shocking. Yet theres so much solace. * The New York Times *
A dogged, brutally thoughtful piece of work, and gives us a writer of great originality and apparent artistic maturity who seems to have come out of nowhere. . . . Strange, thrilling, and disarmingly honest -- J. Robert Lennon * The New York Times Book Review *
Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O'Connor. -- James Wood * The New Yorker *
Haunting and sharp . . . [reminiscent] of the dark-meets-light style of Lydia Davis or Alice Munrobut it leaves room for zingers, too. Quatro is so good . . . the title of this debut collection isn't just a tease. * Elle *

Author Bio

Jamie Quatro is a writer of fiction, poetry, and essays. Her debut story collection, I Want To Show You More, was a shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Georgia Townsend Fiction Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. She is a recipient of a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. Quatro lives with her husband and four children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.