The Necessary Grace to Fall | Anna Maria Hong
Hong is a poet and the editor of a fiction and memoir anthology. In the following essay, Hong discusses how Ochsner humorously and empathetically explores the drives toward life and death through characterization and by employing the motifs of water and air, as well as the tension between falling and flying.
Anna Maria Hong
Hong is a poet and the editor of a fiction and memoir anthology. In the following essay, Hong discusses how Ochsner humorously and empathetically explores the drives toward life and death through characterization and by employing the motifs of water and air, as well as the tension between falling and flying.
Ochsner begins the title story of her acclaimed collection with the intriguing sentence, "All summer had been a medley of jumpers and fallers." In doing so, the author establishes one of the central themes of "The Necessary Grace to Fall":...
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