Marie-Helene Bertino

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Los Angeles” by Ling Ma

ByRoss McMeekin

In Marie-Helene Bertino’s “Edna in Rain” (reviewed in February), the narrator’s ex-lovers are literally raining from the sky, leaving her to deal with the surprising consequences. In Ling Ma’s “Los Angeles” (Granta), the narrator has similar problems with past lovers, leading to a wild exploration of memory’s hold on the present. In the first paragraph,…

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Edna in Rain” by Marie-Helene Bertino

ByRoss McMeekin

  Marie-Helene Bertino, in her short story, “Edna in Rain,” (Gulf Coast Winter/Spring 2015), goes to great lengths to make every aspect of her fictional world ordinary, in order that it might more clearly illuminate the absurdities of our own contemporary world. And making her fictional world ordinary is no small task, as by sentence…