Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories:: story 226
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Mercedes Kane” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1994 where: 客厅,大门 note: Always on the search for more stories about mothers and daughters. a line: “She was sure she would’ve been great in her twenties, thirties, forever, if she had just been encouraged to greatness early on.” theme(s): Mothers and daughters, genius, child prodigy, parenthood
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300 short stories:: story 225
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Bar of Our Recent Unhappiness” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1994 where: Saadiyat note: This story made me think of a New Yorker article I read in winter 2018 about the ethics of keeping people alive who are brain dead via machines. a line: “’You know how it is. You get resigned. God helps you through.’…