{"id":29626,"date":"2022-03-21T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29626"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:44:08","slug":"tessa-hadley-after-the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/03\/21\/tessa-hadley-after-the-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Hadley: “After the Funeral”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“After the Funeral”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Tessa Hadley<\/span>
\nfrom the March 28, 2022 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"O<\/span>zick a few weeks ago. Keegan and Groff before that. The New Yorker is hitting a lot of my sweet spots lately! And it continues this week, with a new story from one of my favorite short story authors. Tessa Hadley is a regular contributor to the magazine, and I hope it doesn’t stop any time soon.<\/p>\n

“After the Funeral” introduces itself quite nicely in the first paragraph. And it does so while intriguing me to continue:<\/p>\n

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After the funeral, the two little girls, aged nine and seven, accompanied their grief-stricken mother home. Naturally, they were also grief-stricken, but, then again, they hadn\u2019t known their father very well and hadn\u2019t enormously liked him. He was an airline pilot, and they\u2019d preferred it when he was away working; being alert little girls, they\u2019d picked up intimations that he preferred it, too. This was in the nineteen-seventies, when air travel was still considered glamorous. Philip Lyons had flown 747s across the Atlantic for B.O.A.C., until he died of a heart attack\u2014luckily not while in the air but on the ground, prosaically, eating breakfast in a New York hotel room. The airline had flown him home free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love Hadley’s explorations of the lives of girls and women, and this promises to continue in that area.<\/p>\n

Please comment below with your thoughts on the story.<\/p>\n