Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

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Bob-Waksberg: The first big story in the collection is the one about the people getting married. That to me is such a happy story. It’s about this couple that clearly loves each other and works together and the power that this man feels for this woman even in spite of their challenges. It’s maybe more typically what you would expect out of a book of stories about love. And I wanted to put that in because I do want that feeling to exist in my book and not feel like, Oh, this is a book of people complaining about how hard love is. The stories are clever and fun but always with lots of heart, and sometimes with some lovely writing:

These stories] keep us engaged and on our toes. With love, your Nana.” —Shirley Bob, author’s grandmotherWe will be close on Friday 18 July – takes a typo on a sign and turns it into a sort of wistful musing on what could have been. A fittingly melancholy conclusion to this collection.

Bob-Waksberg: Yes, all of them. I understand why sometimes it’s nice to have a happy ending. I have some stories that are exactly that: They’re in love at the end and it’s fabulous, good for them. But I do think overwhelmingly we are told as a culture that that is the happy ending. I think we, as a culture, have internalized this idea that once you find the person that you’re supposed to be with, you will be happy. And then if you are not happy, it either means you’re doing something wrong or you did not find the person you’re supposed to be with. I think both those ideas are really dangerous. you want to know what plays are like?" which is a bittersweet story about a family mess. bitter because it's terribly sad. sweet because it's beautifully written. Showcases Bob-Waksberg’s talent for conjuring fantastical scenarios and writing about them with a straight face. . . . Human relationships, he seems to be saying, are weirder than anything else our imaginations can come up with.” —NPR Users who reposted Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, VariousYou Want to Know What Plays Are Like? – my other favorite, this blurs together expectations about theater and how difficult parts of family history can’t be escaped, in art or in real life The truth was Lucinda never even wanted to work there in the first place; she just kind of fell into the position, the same way she seemed to always just kind of fall into everything. A person as unexceptional as Lucinda doesn't live a life as much as a life just floods in around her, filling up whatever empty space a life should be occupying. I can say without hesitation that the collection surpasses my impossibly high expectations. . . . A tremendous debut.” —Ian Mond, Locus