“Behind the Pantry Doors: Unveiling the Untold Stories of Struggle and Resilience at the Foodbank”
The third essay using letters in the narrative, titled “A Life in Letters: A Decades-Long Correspondence with the Italian Writer Arturo Vivante,” was fascinating because it introduced me to another writer with solid credentials who, like Gerber, was unknown to me.
Gerber is at her best, however, when not employing letters to do the storytelling. Her own fine writing makes each essay a jewel, packed with delicious turns of phrase, such as this one, in which she writes about the fact that she and her husband now play Scrabble on their computers:
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