WINNER, Contemporary Fiction, International Impact Book Awards (2025)
FINALIST, Fiction, Eric Hoffer Awards (2026)
Someone or something lurks around every corner, but K.P. Davis's characters have come prepared. These are women carrying on their daily struggles in a dangerous world, striving and searching for safety. They include Nell, an antisocial, nomadic, shade-tree mechanic and getaway driver; 'Bula, an odd girl who talks to animals; and a whole host of others who follow lonely paths spreading empathy while kicking ass. The endings aren't always happy, and these women have plenty of reasons to be afraid, but they keep on going. The twenty sharp, poignant, and biting stories in Trust Issues comprise a stunning beacon for hard-headed folk fighting to be heard when nobody listens.
About the Author :
KIMBERLY PARISH (K.P.) DAVIS was once upon a time an adrenaline junkie. Director and founder of Madville Publishing, her fiction has appeared in Kestrel, Well Read Magazine, Vox Populi, Writing Texas, and elsewhere. Kim grew up in Texas, where she still lives.
Review :
"Trust Issues offers the rare comfort of emotional honesty grounded in unguarded realism. . . . a disciplined and humane work whose emotional force emerges through attentiveness rather than insistence."
-North of Oxford
"K.P. Davis is a master of moments, where even the most mundane instances are fraught with meaning."
-Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The American Daughters
"Trust Issues works the magic we read for, to be transported.
-Susanne Davis, author of Gravity Hill
"Trust Issues will wrap you up fully and drop you in someone else's world."
-Francine Rodriguez, author of A Woman's Story
"These fresh, quirky, highly original tales haunt the imagination in the way a stringed instrument continues to reverberate after the last note."
-Lee Zacharias, author of What a Wonderful World This Could Be
"Davis hits hard and spares readers fantastical notions of the American Dream."
-Jen Knox, author of Chaos Magic
