Pick Me

Kalisha Buckhanon
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While struggling with infertility, Candy and Frankie, a mixed-race couple living in Chicago, decide to adopt a Black child. Despite objections from their wildly different families, who beg the couple to go the more “traditional route,” Candy and Frankie schedule an appointment with the Department of Child Family Services in the hopes of finding not an infant, but a toddler—a child “no one else wants.” Beautifully rendered in a voice unlike any other in contemporary fiction, Pick Me grapples with notions of race, privilege, and ambition in the modern age – and the strain those forces can put on a relationship. Kalisha Buckhanon is author of the award-winning novels Upstate and Conception. Her stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Stockholm Review, Intellectual Refuge, Black Renaissance Noire and more. Her next novel Solemn arrives from St. Martin's Press in May 2016. Visit her at www.Kalisha.com and on most social media @KalishaOnline.
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