Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
AIMEE BENDERIt’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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