Oct 08 2008
100 Shots of Short Reading Challenge - Short Story #1
RobAroundBooks is hosting the 100 Shots of Short Reading Challenge. The idea is to read 100 short stories. The cool thing is that the challenge is open-ended: no time limit, no specific titles.
My first short story is Three by Andrea Lee. I read it in The New Yorker, and you can read it online.
I’ve been reading short stories in The New Yorker for almost a year now, and this is the first story that compelled me to search Amazon for more fiction by the author, Andrea Lee. Lee lives in Italy with her husband, and the story reads very much like memoir rather than fiction, though that is pure speculation on my part.
Lee has written a story of the deaths of three people close to the narrator: her mother-in-law, Ombretta; a local artist, Francescon; and Remo, a handyman. She writes honestly about the way these people’s lives brushed up against hers, sometimes in obviously significant ways; other times the connection is less obvious.
Lee’s prose is alive with description and she places the reader in her village in Italy, experiencing the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that her narrator does. I found myself grieving the deaths of these three people who had become very real to me while I read the story.
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