And yet it is the best they can do.We are all doing our best, and the even most wise and centered and rich and sane of us can find ourselves veering off into the gray and cloudy areas, just like the people in these stories where animals hold special places in people's lives and magical abilities and influences sway lives and jealousy and change brings division. And these stories are filled with folk whose actions don't make sense to us. How can you think I am prejudiced?Geez, guys, just tell your son you love him!Oh, we do love to feel superior to people who struggle and fail when we know what they should do. Isn't that what we do? I have black friends/gay friends/lesbian buddies/Muslim or Jewish or Christian or Hindu friends.
Does it really follow? 'I'm not prejudiced' -fill in the blank for any person or idea.
"We love Anderson Cooper" therefore you should know I would accept you. He imagined it all going down differently. Maizes first short story in her collection, a parental response to their thirteen-year-old son's inability to be frank about his sexual orientation until he chooses the absolute wrong moment to out himself. Readers will recognize themselves in these stories and in these protagonists, whose backgrounds are vastly different from their own―we’ve all been outsiders at some point.What a fantastic title! We Love Anderson Cooper is the title and a line in R.
In this debut collection, humor complements pathos. A paranoid Jewish actuary suspects his cat of cheating on him―with his Protestant girlfriend. When a painter is shunned because of his appearance, he learns to ink tattoos that come to life. A young man courts the publicity that comes from outing himself at his bar mitzvah. In We Love Anderson Cooper, characters are treated as outsiders because of their sexual orientation, racial or religious identity, or simply because they look different. Maizes reminds us that even in our most isolated moments, we are never truly alone. I n this quirky, humorous, and deeply human short story collection, Pushcart Prize-nominated author R.L. Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers Here is a wildly entertaining new voice, one to revel in.” “Told with humor and wisdom, these charming stories burst with possibility: At any moment, a character might risk all, or the world might tilt on its axis.
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