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A review by litletters
You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane
5.0
I listened to the titular story being read by Claire Danes during an episode of On Being. I can’t speak for the rest of the stories in the collection, but this one was a game changer. It’s discovery is a demarcation point, now. Before/after.
I know that could sound eye-rollingly dramatic but hear me out. There is a lot of satirizing the art scene with Barbies being the material of choice (my favorite Instagram account is Barbie Savior, so I am the target audience). There is a foxy missionary man who is so joyful he can’t even fake discontent. And then, there’s our narrator’s musing on the goodness of God, which, as a human rights worker in a “third world country” myself, was the perfect verbalisation of what I’ve been slowly realizing over the years.
You must be thiiiiiiiiiiiis happy to enter. Or at least, want to be, by the time you finish reading.
I know that could sound eye-rollingly dramatic but hear me out. There is a lot of satirizing the art scene with Barbies being the material of choice (my favorite Instagram account is Barbie Savior, so I am the target audience). There is a foxy missionary man who is so joyful he can’t even fake discontent. And then, there’s our narrator’s musing on the goodness of God, which, as a human rights worker in a “third world country” myself, was the perfect verbalisation of what I’ve been slowly realizing over the years.
You must be thiiiiiiiiiiiis happy to enter. Or at least, want to be, by the time you finish reading.