So They Know You Were Here...
I taught English for a little while and was often asked what genre was my favorite or what genre was my least favorite. You’d think for an English teacher, that would be a tough question. But not for me. My least favorite is fantasy or sci fi or even mythology. Absolutely terrible. (I know, I probably just made some enemies.) But I think my dislike is because my love for my favorite is so incredibly strong. My favorite genre is American Realism. Of Mice and Men. A Day No Pigs Would Die. To Kill A Mockingbird. And though I’m in love with these novels for so many different reasons, there’s really just one thing that pulls at my heart. The rawness of normalcy in American culture during hard times. I am positive I sound like a lunatic, but I cannot describe my love for real normal life. There’s nothing grand about the vast majority of these novels yet that’s what makes them so grand to me. The profoundness of a normal life lived by ordinary people pulls me in so close, I almost can’t de