Stylist Extra’s book of the week is I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait, which explores complicated sibling relationships and the effects of intergenerational trauma in sparkling prose.
Stylist’s book of the week is I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait, which explores complicated sibling relationships and the effects of intergenerational trauma in sparkling prose.On the whole, they enjoy a funeral. Michael, because it appeals to his sense of ceremony, Hanna, because she likes the drama, and Alice, because it brings people together.
Her aunt’s coffin is already in place at the front of the chapel. Alice’s mother didn’t want it being carried in ceremoniously in front of everyone. ‘Such an unnecessary fuss,’ she said. ‘And what if they drop it?’Alice, who has always tried to love her aunt, let this pass. ‘I was an intimate friend of hers,’ he says, shaking Alice’s hand. Alice is slightly unsettled by the special emphasis he places on ‘intimate’.He glances round him, as if afraid of being overheard. ‘Here and there,’ he says.
Alice is left alone with her aunt’s friend in the waistcoat. She feels her humiliation has been compounded by being witnessed by him and tries to come up with a suitably casual, amused comment to carry the situation off, but before she can speak, the man says, ‘She seems nice. If you don’t mind, I’ll go in and sit down now.’
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