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- Phil Easley
- Username: phileasley
- Location: Harrisonburg, VA
- Joined PRX: Jan 15, 2004
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- "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded"
- Summary: It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my childhood.
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Review of The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
Phil Easley
Posted on March 18, 2004 at 01:24 PM
Other reviewers have already sung the praises of this story: a daughter's account of her mother's near death experience, her mother's new persona, with musings on what it all means. There are two versions of this story: eleven and twenty minutes. If you have a "showcase" program that can handle the longer version, you may prefer it to the shorter. In defiance of conventional arithmetic, I think the eleven-minute version is just a bit too long, and the 20-minute version is just about right. How can this be? There is a level of detail in the longer version that makes many of the anecdotes more entertaining and meaningful. The narrative flow, to me, seems easier to follow. I got more of a sense of two-parallel-stories-in-one, which seems apt for a mother-daughter character set. Both versions are fine, to my ears, but I liked the longer one more (usually not the case for me, by the way).