Hi, friends. The days are getting shorter and the nights cooler, and I hope you are enjoying fall where ever you are. I’ve been noticing a trend lately in the novels I’m reading—almost all of them written pre-pandemic—of loneliness. A good number of them are about the loneliness of mothers with young children. Often their husbands are traveling for business. In the picture, but off the page. I think there’s a longer essay to be written about this. I’m just over here seeing it, thinking about it. Wondering what these stories tell us about the world we’re living in and how detached we are from it and from one another.
The Lasting Image
The Lasting Image
The Lasting Image
Hi, friends. The days are getting shorter and the nights cooler, and I hope you are enjoying fall where ever you are. I’ve been noticing a trend lately in the novels I’m reading—almost all of them written pre-pandemic—of loneliness. A good number of them are about the loneliness of mothers with young children. Often their husbands are traveling for business. In the picture, but off the page. I think there’s a longer essay to be written about this. I’m just over here seeing it, thinking about it. Wondering what these stories tell us about the world we’re living in and how detached we are from it and from one another.