What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Summary
The action of the story, ‘‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,’’ takes place over the course of an evening, in which two couples, Nick and Laura, and Mel and Terri McGinnis, sit around the kitchen table at the McGinnis’ apartment, drinking gin and talking, before they all go out to dinner together. No one so much as gets up from the table over the course of their conversation, except to get out a second bottle of gin. The story takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico although, as the narrator explains, ‘‘we were all from somewhere else.’’ Mel, a forty-five...
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