Unveiling Hidden Truths: A Riveting Journey Through Michelle Herman’s If You Say So
Aside from the strength and wisdom Herman discovers through dance, unexpected treasures emerge in these essays through the small details. Cooking with her daughter, an inside joke or special saying shared with a friend, the drawings her father makes on his deathbed:
“He had me write down the address of his elementary school, and then the names of his favorite teachers. There was one who had encouraged him to draw — he had loved drawing as a child. “Why did I give it up?” he wondered aloud. I asked him if he remembered teaching me to draw, and the drawings he had made, to demonstrate, then had me copy — a three-dimensional-looking box, a park bench, a road reaching to a vanishing point — and he did. He had me hand him a Sharpie and his yellow legal pad: he drew a box, a bench, a road. Then he drew some other things — a telephone, a table. “I used to draw airplanes all the time,” he said. He turned to a fresh page and drew some airplanes now. He filled a whole legal page with airplanes.”
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