The hero, a whiteboy, copes with the double abandonment of his dead father (9/11) and seemingly absent mother (grief). One winter night, at the movies by myself, I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
She’d moved back to Taiwan for good when I left the suburbs for Brown. The first time Ma told me was my last semester of college. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
