“Behind the Pantry Doors: Unveiling the Untold Stories of Struggle and Resilience at the Foodbank”
Consider the first line from the collection’s title essay: “Did you ever have sex with another woman?” I asked my husband when he was eighty-five and we had been married for sixty-two years. Who could stop reading? I had no choice but to continue with this piece that won a place in 2023’s Best American Essays. The question is the entry point to an essay that combines Gerber’s pandemic experiences visiting a local church’s foodbank with the questions and challenges arising from her decades-long marriage to her husband and health issues related to their advancing age.
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