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This is a very well-written short story that captures all the essence it intends to deliver beautifully. A short story is considered to be a success when a reader could somehow vicariously feel and experience the emotions and sensations felt by the character in just a few pages long. And that's just what 'The Wind' did to me. I personally had a very special and close relationship with my late mother, and incidentally I am the eldest of four siblings, and the only daughter in my family. I cried u...
A devastating story of violence and abuse against women within the family, and how the trauma gets passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter and passes through them as the wind - a wind that is familiar and known by many other daughters and mothers in the world.I found it hard to listen to, (I listened to the author reading it on The Writer's Voice - the brutality and desperation of the experience for the family.
Perfectly crafted short story dealing with domestic violence and the way in which, too often, everyone in a small community knows what is happening, but nobody steps up to stop it. Sad, but beautifully written.Read it here in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
My comments for The Wind by Lauren Groff:Chilling, brutal, and very well written. (view spoiler)[A short story about the father beating the mother and the oldest daughter. They flee from the house. As an extra twist the father is the local law enforcer/sheriff so they have to get out of his jurisdiction to be safe. (hide spoiler)]
Thursday is for trauma readings. (I know it's technically Friday). Another masterpiece showing a law man abusing his power and hurting his family. Lauren Groff sure does know how to tell a story and have some good imagery. I want to read more of her work.
I am buzzing, a sort of rolling pulse of goosebumps. A pure triumph of its form. Beautiful, vivid, haunting, bring-you-to-your-knees, memorable, deliberate, awakening.
This is one of the best short stories I have read! Highly recommend!
"...she taught me how to move as a woman in the world. She was far from being the first to find it blowing through her, and of course I will not be the last. I look around and can see it in so many other women, passed down from a time beyond history, this wind that is dark and ceaseless and raging within."..Lauren Groff has done a fantastic job. She has not only penned down an extremely powerful piece but has also managed to it in merely four pages...Blog | Youtube | Instagram |
Such an intense short story
In the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...🥺 I think this is the most powerful short story I've ever read.
Short, but oh so damn good. Can we ever escape?
"The daughter is telling her mother’s story, yet, as the narrator makes explicitly clear in the final paragraphs, it’s her story too. She has decentered herself as a narrator; her influence is both purposefully discreet and deeply significant. This concise story of the most traumatic moment in this narrator’s mother’s life—the morning she and her brothers tried to help their mother flee from their abusive father—illustrates an extraordinarily complicated truth about how the aftereffects of traum...
