Thursday, April 28, 2005

I'm still crying

Do yourself a very large favor and pick up Dan Chaon's You Remind Me of Me. (Thank ya mucho, A, for introducing me to this rockstar writer, btw.) Eternal Sunshine fans will esp enjoy, as will those who liked the idea of Tom Perrotta's Little Children but found it to be sorely lacking in realism (read: buyable characters). Man that bugged me.

Among other things, Chaon describes life in a slow, sleepy Midwest town--the result is striking. Turning pages, I felt a vague, bittersweet longing creep in, and a kind of grogginess I haven't known for awhile. Ten years old, summer dusk, Flinstones push-pops, lawnmowers, how it all might have gone differently...

I'll stop now.

It's funny. Although the story contains a lot of sadness, it evokes so much more than that.

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 1:59 PM