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Biden added, a little bleakly: “We got a hell of a long way to go.”
His sense of worth is depleted before he leaves the nursery, by the interlocking efforts of a drunken, bleakly dismissive and mostly absent father and a nanny determined to control his bodily processes.
It is bleakly gripping – mournful cellos yes, humour no – as kidnapped children and temporal conspiracies abound, but its depiction of regret and inevitability is also tragically beautiful.
“Stories like Jennifer Egan’s make me want to continue my subscription to and discontinue my prescription to anti-depressants,” a reader once wrote in. “Stories so bleakly wrought that they make me eerily happy.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jennifer-egans-disciplined-restlessness