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You're Home Early (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Vincent Scarpa’s “You’re Home Early” is a story with astounding emotional complexities. Annie, a divorced orthodontist from Chicago, travels to visit her father on death row at the Huntsville Prison in Texas the day before his scheduled execution. Annie's reasons for making the trip are mysterious even to her: “It may be as simple as she is lonely and curious and wants to be there for the end of the story that has tailored the entirety of her life,” Scarpa writes. “It may be as complicated as because he asked her to.”

As she visits the prison, Annie struggles to find a rubric for her feelings. Years ago her father committed a gruesome, sadistic murder, and as a result his life and his death will take place on the very edge of society, so far outside Annie’s normal life—of anyone’s normal life—that her grief becomes uncanny.

Language: English

Pages: 30

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Electric Literature

Release: September 07, 2015

You're Home Early (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Vincent Scarpa’s “You’re Home Early” is a story with astounding emotional complexities. Annie, a divorced orthodontist from Chicago, travels to visit her father on death row at the Huntsville Prison in Texas the day before his scheduled execution. Annie's reasons for making the trip are mysterious even to her: “It may be as simple as she is lonely and curious and wants to be there for the end of the story that has tailored the entirety of her life,” Scarpa writes. “It may be as complicated as because he asked her to.”

As she visits the prison, Annie struggles to find a rubric for her feelings. Years ago her father committed a gruesome, sadistic murder, and as a result his life and his death will take place on the very edge of society, so far outside Annie’s normal life—of anyone’s normal life—that her grief becomes uncanny.

Language: English

Pages: 30

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Electric Literature

Release: September 07, 2015

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