I'm So Fine

About this book

Included in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's feature, "6 Recent Collections that Deliver Truth with Originality and Grace" in O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2018Finalist, CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2018Finalist, American Book Fest Best Book Award in Fiction, 2018Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize, 2017Longlist, Julie Suk Award, 2018Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life, framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit, however, I'm So Fine breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment, to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself "& mostly gets its every fineness."