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Attachment by Isabel Fonseca
A woman and her husband are living the life on an island. They only get mail delivered every few weeks.
So, naturally, when the mail arrives the wife sees no harm in reading a letter addressed to her husband.
Turns out it's a love letter, and provides info for accessing an e-mail account.
Suddenly, the smear of blueberry jam at the corner of his mouth disgusts her. A few moments before, at the breakfast table, it warmed her heart, but now the blot was proof that his mother coddled him far, far too much.
Rather than confront her husband then and there, the wife goes off to her mammogram because heavyhanded symbolism is a must in first novels.
There, she imagines that the the appliance is a time machine and that losing a breast wouldn't be so bad because, well, Amazonians did it to make it easier to practice archery.
This imagery of mutilation and marksmanship gives her strength.
So she goes and opens the e-mail account - sees some cheesecake ph...more
So, naturally, when the mail arrives the wife sees no harm in reading a letter addressed to her husband.
Turns out it's a love letter, and provides info for accessing an e-mail account.
Suddenly, the smear of blueberry jam at the corner of his mouth disgusts her. A few moments before, at the breakfast table, it warmed her heart, but now the blot was proof that his mother coddled him far, far too much.
Rather than confront her husband then and there, the wife goes off to her mammogram because heavyhanded symbolism is a must in first novels.
There, she imagines that the the appliance is a time machine and that losing a breast wouldn't be so bad because, well, Amazonians did it to make it easier to practice archery.
This imagery of mutilation and marksmanship gives her strength.
So she goes and opens the e-mail account - sees some cheesecake ph...more
