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shinu5791 t1_ixz4x2d wrote

I read “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” story collection few years back..and to this day it remains one of my favourites! Having read the collection, I believe Carver was either a great tease or just stopped when he felt like it..either way, the collection is like a quilt patched with scraps from ordinary lives where each story catches a glimpse of the nature of humans! So satisfying to read :)

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Valuable-Elevator511 OP t1_iy12soo wrote

The quilted blanket was a lovely analogy. I was just saying above that for me, it was like flying over a town where all these stories were happening in one day and I could only pick up bits of it as I flew over realising these seemingly ordinary lives, seen from above, were much more complex and interesting than I had remembered was possible

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