This book is a cute collection of 75 nano-nonfictions. Little windows into the lives of the contributors, revealing a larger window in to the authors’ realities.
I have a standard critique of NPR radio programming that gets overless precious, and many essays comes close to crossing the line, but the photographs ground the collection.
Whatever the text may emote, the image of a “thing” to keeps the pairings from falling into pure sentimentality.
It’s a fun quick read, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to find it.
I have a note in the front cover that I got it from Half Price books on 28 November 2008. So I suspect this was pick up on one of the two Black Friday’s where I ended up winning a $200 gift cards from that store.
Was it worth lugging around between two cities and four houses over twelve years before finally getting read while in exile in the midst of a pandemic?
Doubtful, but it does got a nice backstory.
