Kinsey and Me: Stories is split between short stories featuring Grafton's detective Kinsey Millhone (a person that Grafton says she might have been if she hadn't married young or had children) and short stories about Kit Blue (a person she calls a younger version of herself). The Kit Blue stories were written in the decade following her mother's death.The Kinsey Millhone stories are crisp and sometimes great fun‒they include a story Grafton wrote for a Lands' End catalog contest. In the story, Kinsey wears a Lands' End Squall Parka (with a temp rating of -10/-30℉) as she tails suspected killers.
The intro to the second half of the book, and the Kit Blue stories which comprise it, are the dessert, though. The tales make up an often, but not always, heart-squeezing look into Grafton's early years, providing a window into her life with alcoholic parents. I felt trusted as a reader invited to look inside as Grafton processes the lives of her parents and herself.
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