Kercheval shows how to build that structure using such tools as point of view, characterization, pacing, and flashbacks. Building Fiction will help you envision the landscape of your fiction and build great stories there.

"This is a no-holds-barred analysis of contemporary liberalism and the havoc it is wrecking in American culture.

In this provocative book, Rev.

Kercheval recalls her life as a young girl living in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966, watching as her mother slipped into a Valium-induced state of apathy, her father became a workaholic, and her older sister tried to shoulder the burden.

In Jesse Lee Kercheval’s sixth collection, I Want to Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive.

"Traces the collapse of the black community in America to an unexpected source: the anger against one's mother and father that fatherlessness engenders"--Provided by publisher.