Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen

Author:Jonathan Franzen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Literary, Essays, Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780374153571
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

My parents met two years after Pearl Harbor, in the fall of 1943, and within a few months they were exchanging cards and letters. My father worked for the Great Northern Railway and was often on the road, in small towns, inspecting or repairing bridges, while my mother stayed in Minneapolis and worked as a receptionist. Of the letters from him to her in my possession, the oldest is from Valentine’s Day 1944. He was in Fairview, Montana, and my mother had sent him a Valentine’s card in the style of all her cards in the year leading up to their marriage: sweetly drawn babies or toddlers or baby animals voicing sweet sentiments. The front of her valentine (which my father likewise saved) shows a pigtailed little girl and a blushing little boy standing beside each other with their eyes bashfully averted and their hands tucked bashfully behind their backs.

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