Do the Windows Open? (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julie Hecht
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Anti-Semitism, Women, Photography or photographers, Germany or German people, Behavior modification, Christmas, Transportation, Face or faces, Vision
The unnamed woman talking to herself so readers can eavesdrop on her benign but pathological sense of otherness in Julie Hecht’s nine stories is articulate—a woman who keeps up with current trends in herbal remedies, macrobiotic vegetarian theories of health, and ecological strategies for healing the earth. Add to her personality a sense of profound loss. She refers to her “facial disintegration” in the first story, “Perfect Vision,” and versions of the deterioration lament echo throughout the rest of the stories: unfinished projects, lack of interest in friends, even a...
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