It's funny, and by funny I mean heartbreaking, how one can stumble over something from the past at exactly the right moment to extract maximum poignancy. So have some tears from the future. I've been saving them all year.
You don't need me to tell you this is great, because you know it's great. But, for your ego, it's effing great.
About halfway through the piece my slow-moving brain put together the Franklin and Francine connection and, because his son was called "Junior," I still hadn't quite connected the generational name passing. That therefore made this line -- "For the first time, it hit Franklin that she might be named after Junior instead of him." -- the most resonant of the piece.
Hey, I was expecting comic and satiric, a la stories in Everything Abridged, but Chekhovian? Not darker, I thought, but deeper. Nice.
It's funny, and by funny I mean heartbreaking, how one can stumble over something from the past at exactly the right moment to extract maximum poignancy. So have some tears from the future. I've been saving them all year.
When is the new "Cannonball" book coming out? I never caught the date. Thanks.
You don't need me to tell you this is great, because you know it's great. But, for your ego, it's effing great.
About halfway through the piece my slow-moving brain put together the Franklin and Francine connection and, because his son was called "Junior," I still hadn't quite connected the generational name passing. That therefore made this line -- "For the first time, it hit Franklin that she might be named after Junior instead of him." -- the most resonant of the piece.
Good stuff.
Loved this!