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Kendra Allen

Biography

Kendra Allen

Kendra Allen is the author of the memoir FRUIT PUNCH, the poetry collection THE COLLECTION PLATE, and the essay collection WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, awarded by Kiese Laymon. She writes to music column “Make Love in My Car” for Southwest Review. She was born and raised in Dallas. 

Kendra Allen

Books by Kendra Allen

by Kendra Allen - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young woman’s defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly --- that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastation --- and joys they could never predict. GOOD MORNING MEANS I LOVE YOU follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself.