#413 That Colour- Jon McGregor
This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like
You is a collection that has been on The-Best-Of lists since it was published a
few years ago. This first salvo is, as we have seen in several collections, a
short mood setter, an "amuse bouche" to announce the intention of the overall
work
A woman stares out the window ruminating on the shortness of
the years and the changing of the season. She is awed by it, as if it is the
first time she has thought these things. Her husband, more pragmatic:
“I asked her why she was so surprised. I told her it was
autumn, it was what happened…I told her she went through this every year…I
dried my hands and went through the front room and stood beside her. I felt for
her hand and held it. I said, But tell me again.”
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