Dear Damage Farmer Ashley Marie
Dear Damage Farmer Ashley Marie Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. She asked, "I'm paralyzed, aren't…
Specifikacia Dear Damage Farmer Ashley Marie
Dear Damage Farmer Ashley Marie
Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. She asked, "I'm paralyzed, aren't I?" Later, thinking to put her out of her misery, he kissed his sleeping wife of sixty-three years and shot her in the chest. It was a swift accident on an ordinary day: her chin hit the floor; her cervical spine shattered.
He was immediately arrested. He tried to shoot himself too, but the weapon broke apart in his hands. This is the scene we are greeted with at the outset of Farmer's stunning collection of hybrid essays.
One of its greatest features is the variety of voices, a kaleidoscopic approach that corals in autobiography, audio transcripts, media, legal documents, Internet comments, short prose pieces, and more. The result is a moving, deeply satisfying, eye-opening story that will surely find many