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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.

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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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