These ‘Seven Stories About Tammy’ add up to one brilliant piece of writing

Biblioasis

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the famous opening sequence of Up, the Pixar animated film. That movie begins with a wordless montage of a marriage, Carl and Ellie’s marriage: its youthful giddiness, the pain of infertility and the long goodbye of Ellie’s death in old age.

The montage takes less than four-and-a-half minutes and, yet, contains the emotional depths of a much longer film or novel about a marriage. Relying solely on words, Elizabeth McCracken‘s