This piece juxtaposes carefree childhood with adult reality. Yeah, you're rolling your eyes. But it's not what you think: "how do you go from the warm comforting tomato soup that comes after building a snowman, to knawing on a can waiting for biopsy results..." "One moment you're diving for shiny quarters in the deep end of the public pool and the next moment you're digging under the public lint infested laundry machine for loose change to buy ramin noodles...oh how far we've fallen." There's wonderful writing in this, and read with a perfect deadpan voice, and I can hardly stand to listen to it it's so dark and sad and true.
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Sue Shepherd
Posted on March 29, 2007 at 04:12 AM | Permalink
Review of "How Far We've Fallen" The radical transformation from idyllic childhood to the Slap You Silly Realities of Adulthood.
This piece juxtaposes carefree childhood with adult reality. Yeah, you're rolling your eyes. But it's not what you think: "how do you go from the warm comforting tomato soup that comes after building a snowman, to knawing on a can waiting for biopsy results..." "One moment you're diving for shiny quarters in the deep end of the public pool and the next moment you're digging under the public lint infested laundry machine for loose change to buy ramin noodles...oh how far we've fallen." There's wonderful writing in this, and read with a perfect deadpan voice, and I can hardly stand to listen to it it's so dark and sad and true.