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I don't know how many times I've read this before but reading again today and I still love it.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Sad but hopefulhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
I love Charles Yu and I have yet to find anything he's written that hasn't smitten me. Here he uses the gentle language of fable, spiced with wry modern touches, to tell the story of an ordinary man talking to a therapist about his ordinary life. And of course, there is nothing shallow or uninteresting about this life - his story breaks your heart and soothes it all at the same time.
As someone who has family memebers with special needs I absolutely loved this short story.The writer does an excellent job of capturing the emotional tool it takes on the caregivers while also showcasing how compassionate and selfless they are.
That was so entirely sad
Some super-librarians seem to have a lot of time on their hands. I really wish they would use it to read the Librarian Manual, instead of thoughtlessly deleting stories left and right.Goodreads considers the following to be valid book records:…• short stories published online (the format should be "ebook"). However, see also.Which leads one here:The following is a list of items that should not be added to the database:...• Shorts:***A short story or short stories only published in an anthology o...
This is yet another flawless New Yorker freebie, in the running for my favourite short story of 2016.Charles Yu’s story is about the heroes amongst us, like his protagonist who juggles two jobs to support a special needs son. It’s also about the burden of that mantle, reminding us that heroes are prone to resentment and anger as often as the rest of us.However, Fable is made excellent not by its plot, but by its effective framing device and hopeful conclusion... Yu subtly conveys the powerful ro...
A man tells a story to his therapist as if it was a fairy tale. He tries over and over again to tell a new story but each time, it ends up being the same story. Or is it?
