Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marianne Wiggins
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Abandoned children, England or English people, Violence, Death or dying, Tragedy, Birds, Bilingualism, Netherlands or Dutch people
Like her most recent works, the novel John Dollar (1989) and the story collection Herself in Love (1987), Marianne Wiggins’ Bet They’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone is concerned with vulnerable characters.
Angel, the eleven-year-old protagonist of “Angel,” has been abandoned by her parents. Her maternal grandmother, Fanny, takes care of her. If they are close, it is not through words at first, for Fanny does not speak Angel’s English nor Angel Fanny’s Greek, though they do share a small vocabulary in both languages.
Fanny’s husband, Papou,...
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