Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.” In “Salted Circus Cashews, Swear to God,” a woman goes on a first date with a man. The date goes well, but then the man gives the woman a can of cashews. The long label on the can makes many unconvincing claims that it is not actually a prank filled with spring-loaded rubber snakes. The Average of All Possible Things,” follows a character named Lucinda who works as a clerk/researcher at a law firm. She does not like her job very much. For five months, she dates Gavin, one of the lawyers at the firm. Gavin then ends the relationship. At first, Lucinda has trouble getting over the relationship, as she sees Gavin at work often. However, she then eventually begins to heal.

But now I feel known and I feel loved. So I would like to think that future books I write will be able to maintain a little bit of everything. I’ve allowed myself to change and write in ways that reflect how I feel about things now. Some of the stories in this book I could not write now, so I’m happy to have this record of them. I read an Atlantic article about this book, and it was laudatory enough to make me think about reading this collection. I then saw the author in person at a publicity event. Raphael Bob-Waksberg came across as emotionally intelligent and funny, and peers of his (Jonny Sun and others) lauded him too, so I bought the book. The "dazzling, exhilarating" ( San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writersThere are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.”

These stories, while infused with elements of fantasy, made me feel and feel more connected to the human condition.” —Elise Hu, TED Talks Daily The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bob-Waksberg, Raphael. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg another little bitty comedic interlude of a story. it’s that thing when you’re meeting someone for dinner but you’re hungry NOW and you shove whatever’s handy into your face to tide you over and it’s not that you don’t enjoy the eating of it but you’re really ready for dinner to happen.

Some of the stories, I realized, as I was working on them, that the gender didn’t matter. It’s like, what if I just got rid of all the gender indicators and let this be ambiguous? Sometimes that ambiguity gets in the way, but that’s a challenge. You don’t want to [create] this vague everyperson.

Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You” lists hypothetical scenarios between two people who used to date. In all of the scenarios, there is the sense of lingering tension between the two people.and so much more! The rest of this review, for the sake of my sanity and yours alike, will be a rundown of the individual stories, followed by a lengthy section of my favorite quotes from the book, because I flagged quite a few of them, and I think they might give you a better idea of what actually happens in this one. With all that said…let’s go. that’s me in a nutshell these days. i’m not proud of this wallow, but things in my life are still trending sour. (since you’re not here anymore, i feel okay about being a little confessional and self-pitying) this story described so many of my moods, i just had to love it. There are quite a few that lingered in my mind way after I’ve read them. One of them is “Missed Connection,” a story about two strangers who meet on a train and is just about the make a connection but each is just too shy to make the first move, and so they wait - and keeps postponing getting off the train. It is both absurd and implausible yet it is poignant and entertaining.