Short Story of the Week
Here We Aren’t, So Quickly, Jonathan Safran Foer (2010)
Each week, I’m selecting a short story to share with you. No more than 15 or so pages, each think of them as bite-sized entrées into a genre, author, or style.
Today’s offering is beautiful and challenging and unusual. More of a prose poem than strictly narrative, but I still think it fulfils the ‘short story’ brief. It’s about a relationship, and the emotions, details and neuroses that go along with knowing another person intimately, and being known by them in return. Fragmented, second-person bursts slowly take us through the course of a marriage, with surprising emotional power.