Unveiling Life’s Quiet Secrets: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Micro-Memoirs Will Change How You See Goodbyes Forever
The collection also includes work in a lighter vein. Fennelly often is funny, and her humor appears in the same surprising way as her more serious images and phrases. My favorites are the pieces in a series titled “Married Love,” with my particular favorite, “Married Love: Sweet Music,” which states, “When, on our twenty-fifth anniversary, to present me a ring, he drops to one knee, it cracks.”
This same slightly tongue-in-cheek tone is present in other pieces, including “Me vs. Slugs: Pandemic Edition,” which chronicles her war against the slugs devouring her garden during lockdown. It ends with her son’s somewhat unflattering description of her, slightly drunk, overheard calling the slugs “little assholes,” and laughing as she kills them.
