#486 Cranberry Relish- Katherine Heiny
Josie, a married woman with two kids and a nice happy life
has been sleeping with a man she met on facebook. Now this man is breaking up
with her for a woman he met on twitter. The irony of all this isn’t lost on Josie
of course who has felt strange about the whole order of things anyway:
“We’re doing all this backwards…their minds had fallen in
love before their bodies did and what if their bodies got all stubborn and
wouldn’t fall in line?”
If Heiny wasn’t an exceptional storyteller, this is where
I’d be saying how saturated I’ve become with tales of infidelity, or I’d say
how un-clever the love-in-the-age-of-social-media story line is. If I did say
all those things, I’d have a lot of evidence to back my statement up. However,
even when I don’t get blown away by her story subjects, I still really enjoy
reading Heiny’s stories. Perhaps it’s the matter-of-fact nonjudgmental take on
morality issues, or that even when there seems to be little emotion in the
characters it’s less about being cold and more about not wallowing in other
people’s feelings.
This may be my least favorite in this collection so far, but
I’ll still take it over the majority of other stories with similar topics.
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