The New Yorker: "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" by Jonathan Safran Foer


Does this story remind anyone else of Lorrie Moore? The story is short and until the last paragraph every single sentence uses a pronoun. The first paragraph is all "I" but the second is all "you" as the narrator gives information about a couple—the excuses they give, their quirks, their habits. Then there's a paragraph that's mixed "I" and "You" followed by a paragraph of "We." Eventually "They" enter the picture—various third parties—and then "he" when the couple's child is born. (Through h...
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Published on June 21, 2010 09:57
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