Edan Lepucki
Autor(a) de California
About the Author
Edan Lepucki is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a staff writer for The Millions. Her short fiction has been published in several magazines including McSweeney's and Narrative Magazine. She is the founder and director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. Her first book, California, was mostrar mais published in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Wikimedia.org
Obras por Edan Lepucki
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 (The Best American Series ®) (2019) — Editor — 41 exemplares
Woman 17 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1981
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Oberlin College
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- James D. Phelan Literary Award
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 1,714
- Popularidade
- #14,983
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 193
- ISBN
- 40
- Línguas
- 2
The heart of the story lay in Vic's reassessment of her relationship with her parents. Initially, Vic comes across as a Daddy's Girl. He has been her teacher and her friend and was the person that she most loved and admired. Until, in the early pages of the story, he kills himself.
Vic needs to understand why he did this. She needs to grieve. She needs to rebuild her relationship with her mother. Most of all, she needs to find a way to earn enough money to get herself and her mother out of the financial hole her father's death has left them in.
As the story progresses, Vic comes to realise how poorly her father had been coping with the reality of the world that she has grown up in.
He was an educated man who was constantly mourning the loss of the world as it used to be, forecasting the inevitable doom of the human race and disparaging the unprincipled things that people were doing to survive.
It takes Vic a while to see that this worldview was a sign of weakness rather than wisdom. Vic looks at her world as it is, acknowledges the discomforts and the personal challenges but still sees beauty in the world and has a desire to go on living.
By the end of the story, Vic has accepted three things: by committing suicide, the power of her father's voice in her head has been nullified; her mother is and always has been, the stronger parent and Vic's future, such as it is, is hers to build.
'There's No Place Like Home' took me a little over an hour to listen to but, in that time, I got to see a plausible near-future and got to meet the women who were finding a way to cope with it. To me, that felt like time well spent.… (mais)