Author Archives: greergordon

I went home for a month for Christmas right after Jessica’s mom was in the car accident and I called Nicky Forrester for the first time in a while.  The drive from Boston to Michigan was comforting in a familiar … Continue reading →

What I love about “The Bubba Stories” is the fact that the plot is not unique at all.  There is nothing new in a story about a coming of age story of a girl going to college and telling lies, … Continue reading →

Home is a coming of age story.  However, it works kind of backwards.  It takes a narrator who feels she’s an adult and shows her recognizing that she still has so far to go.  One of the ways that we … Continue reading →

The title for this story fits perfectly with the structure of it.  It’s told from a conversational, straight forward standpoint, and we aren’t given a lot of convoluted lines that we have to read into.  The narrator simply tells it … Continue reading →

“The Brown Coast” might be one of my favorite stories that we have read this semester, which is strange considering it’s the only one that isn’t from the first person point of view from Tower, which I generally like better, … Continue reading →

Reading My Shape coupled with all of Mary Robinson’s stories felt like a huge jump.  They were so contradictory, we got almost all of the narrator’s life story in My Shape and Mary Robinson only gives us a peek in … Continue reading →