The Girl on the Fridge (35)

Title: The Girl on the Fridge
Author: Etgar Keret
Genre: Fiction

Etgar Keret's specialty is really brief, quite surreal and abstract fiction.His short stories (seriously short, not even a page in some cases) aren't linear tales of events but, as he described it when I saw him speak earlier this week, his attempts at hanging on to a feeling. I like that description. If someone asked you what happens in a Keret story they've asked the wrong question. The right question is how did you feel or perhaps even more accurate what feeling did the story share with you?

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