WE WERE THE UNIVERSE
The New York Times, Her Sister is Dead, but Life, and Libido, Carry On
Editors’ Choice at The New York Times, 6 New Books We Recommend This Week
One of Oprah’s Favorite Things, an Oprah Daily Best Book of 2024
The Boston Globe, In the Sad and Funny We Were the Universe, Kimberly King Parsons Hits All the Right Notes
Vanity Fair, Kimberly King Parsons Wanted to Read Books About Queer Parenthood, So She Wrote One
Oprah Daily, O Magazine, The Best Summer Books to Read on Vacation
Marie Claire, 36 Best LGBTQ+ Books
Marie Claire UK, We’ve Found the Best Books of 2024
The New Yorker, Is the End of Marriage the Beginning of Self-Knowledge?
Vogue, From Laufey to Dua Lipa—all the celebrity book clubs to join now
The Daily Mail (UK), “Explosion of Family Secrets and Lies: 3 New Books” (Sunday print edition)
The Daily Mail (UK), First Chapters: an Extract from We Were the Universe
Texas Monthly, Horny Moms and Lost Souls: How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel
Dallas Morning News, Author debuts first novel about ‘Texas, motherhood and psychedelics’
Southwest Review, 10 Must-Read Books of 2024
Otherppl Podcast, Book Club Pick
Autostraddle, In We Were The Universe, Grief and Motherhood are Horny
Autostraddle, 75 Books for Every Pride Vibe
The Rumpus, Gilded: Kimberly King Parsons’s We Were the Universe
Texas Highways, Novel Ideas
Telegraph India, Dakota Johnson to Reese Witherspoon: 7 celebrities who run book clubs
Publishers Weekly, Celebrity Book Club Picks for 2024
Lit Hub, Vacation Mode: On the Literary Relationship Between Travel and Madness
Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024
Lit Hub, Kimberly King Parsons on a Mother’s Right to Disassociate
Electric Lit, 42 Queer Books You Need to Read in 2024
Juicy Pink Box, The 10 Saddest, Queerest Books of Summer
Brit + Co, 27 Best New books of 2024
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Best Books of May
Psychedelic Press, The Psychedelic Experience in We Were the Universe
City Cast Nashville, Novelette Booksellers Recommends We Were the Universe
Columbia Magazine, Kimberly King Parsons '10 Releases New Novel 'We Were the Universe'
Book Riot, 7 Must-Read New LGBTQ Books
Goodreads, Editors Picks for May
Goodreads, Buzzy Novels from the first Half of 2024
Goodreads, Debut Novels to Check Out This Season
Debutiful, The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024
Debutiful, 15 Noteworthy Debut Books to Read This May
Bibliolifestyle, Discover Vibrant Queer Books of 2024
Kirkus Reviews, ☆Starred☆
BLACK LIGHT
2020 National Magazine Award in Fiction for The Paris Review (for the story “Foxes”)
Finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Award/Ken Kesey Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2020 Texas Institute of Letters Best Work of First Fiction Award
The Paris Review, The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2019
The Paris Review, Contributors’ Favorite Books of 2019
The Today Show, 5 Books to Read if You Enjoyed Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
The New York Times, In the Running for National Book Awards
Reader’s Digest, The 25 Best, Most Iconic Short Stories of All Time
Electric Lit, 8 Books About Coming into Queer Selfhood
Electric Lit, 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019
Texas Observer, The 30 Best Texas Books of the Decade
Literary Arts, Reading Recommendations: Pride Reads
Powell’s Best Fiction of 2019
Powell’s Staff’s Top 5 Books of 2019
Lit Hub, Best Queer Debuts of 2019
Electric Literature, 10 Stories about Self-Destructive Women
Southwest Review, 10 Must-Read Books of 2019
The Millions, Books Are Magic Staff Pick 2019
Texas Monthly, The Best Things in Texas 2020
Harvard Bookstore 2019 Staff Favorites
Largehearted Boy’s Favorite Short Story Collections of 2019
Write or Die Tribe’s Favorite Books of 2019
The Millions Year in Reading 2019
Debutiful, Favorite Debuts of 2019
Oprah Magazine, 23 of the Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019
The Paris Review, Staff Pick
Oprah Magazine, 10 August Books You Should Read Right Now
Publishers Weekly, Writers to Watch Fall 2019: Anticipated Debuts
LAMBDA Literary, New in August: Kimberly King Parsons, Caleb Crain, and Elissa Altman
The Millions, 10 Writers to Watch in 2019
PDX Monthly, 10 Great Books by Oregon Writers
BookPeople’s Favorite Fiction Reads of 2019
Bennington Banner, The One Book You Should Give this Season
Electric Lit, The 20 Best Debuts of the Second Half of 2019
Portland Monthly, 2019’s Best Oregon-Born Culture
The Advocate, 20 LGBTQ Collections of Poetry, Short Stories, and Essays
Lit Hub, The 12 Best Book Covers of August
The Millions, Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2019 Book Preview
Lit Hub, New Books Tuesday
CRAFT Literary, New Books: August 2019
The Rumpus, What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway Through 2019
Lit Reactor, Books That Are Feminist AF
Paperback Paris, The 60 Best Books of 2019
Paperback Paris, Four Women with Mind-blowingly Original Debuts Out This Month
Bustle, 20 New Books To Read This Summer, According To Authors
Autostraddle, 15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer Hot Hot Hot
Vol.1 Brooklyn, August 2019 Book Preview
Portland Monthly, 2019’s Best Oregon-Born Culture
Local Profile, 10 Books by Texans to Read the Spring
Debutiful, 6 debut books to read this August
Publishers Weekly, ☆Starred☆ Review
Kirkus, ☆Starred☆ Review