Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. the average of all possible things" - probably my favorite. it's a breakup story, and all the emotions within are painfully real. Perhaps a better me would have done the right thing and left, or a worse me wouldn’t have worried about it, just indulged in the transgression, but I am only as good as I am, and I could only do what the person as good as I am could do. He used to call her a koala because of the way she wrapped herself around him in bed, like a koala on a branch. She had wrapped her whole life around him, like a koala on a branch. And now the branch was gone and Lucinda had to deal with the fact that her life was now wrapped around nothing–which of course was all perfectly normal. All the pain Lucinda now felt was normal. The emptiness was normal. The harsh incinerating b boring awful raw barren obsessive numb five-hundred-volt nothingness now completely consuming her was so totally average.”

and so much more! The rest of this review, for the sake of my sanity and yours alike, will be a rundown of the individual stories, followed by a lengthy section of my favorite quotes from the book, because I flagged quite a few of them, and I think they might give you a better idea of what actually happens in this one. With all that said…let’s go. It’s okay,” said Debbie. “You know, I used to be super-bummed, but the truth is you can get over anything with enough time. That was the other part of the idea behind the watch, the first part being the thing about you not having to look at your phone. The other part was so that you could remember that time was passing. For most things, really, the only thing to do is just let there be time.” I loved Mutt, in that way that you love something when you’re at a place in your life when you’re ready to love something and there’s a thing there that you can love.”

There are quite a few that lingered in my mind way after I’ve read them. One of them is “Missed Connection,” a story about two strangers who meet on a train and is just about the make a connection but each is just too shy to make the first move, and so they wait - and keeps postponing getting off the train. It is both absurd and implausible yet it is poignant and entertaining. The normal reasons. Like, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. It’s all the dumb clichés about how even when I’m mad at you I love you and how every day the best part of it is waking up next to you. And it kills me that this is all the normal, typical people-in-love stuff, because I want to believe our love is special—that it’s bigger and more interesting than any love that anyone else has had before—but the heartbreaking truth is my love for you is so consistent and predictable and boring.” A Frankenstein-esque monster that is a genetically reconstructed hybrid of the first ten US presidents, all rolled into one The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride

I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.” Giorgis: Can you tell me a bit about the surrealist elements in the book? The thing about love, of course, is that your predicament always feels like it’s the most dramatic, earthshaking thing in the world, even—and perhaps especially—when it’s fairly ordinary. A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. In “We Men of Science,” a scientist named Yoni opens a door to an alternate dimension. He falls in love with a woman in the alternate dimension, but he feels that he should not act on this attraction, as Yoni is married and his wife is pregnant. In “Lies We Told Each Other (a partial list),” the story recounts lies told between two members of a dysfunctional relationship. I try to counter that a little bit in my work or suggest that, no, you cannot depend on a person to make you happy. A person can be a part of that and should be. If a person is making you unhappy, that is a bad situation. But I don’t want to suggest the problem is just that you need to find a better person.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.