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The characters in Think of Me and I’ll Know, Anthony Varallo’s probing new collection of stories, face moments in which insight comes too late, or proves insufficient, often to humorous effect. The characters approach the edge of learning something about themselves or about their relationships with other people, only to be left with knowledge that is not particularly useful.
Varallo ably captures the often confused and heartrending perspective of adolescents discovering the world, such as in "No One at All," in which an eleven-year-old boy comes to see that another boy, two years older, is something less than a reliable friend. The author also captures the complications of family dynamics, such as the three generations of women in the related stories "Lucky Us" and "Tragic Little Me." The stories in Think of Me and I’ll Know show that we are perhaps not much more comprehensible to ourselves than others are to us.
Varallo ably captures the often confused and heartrending perspective of adolescents discovering the world, such as in "No One at All," in which an eleven-year-old boy comes to see that another boy, two years older, is something less than a reliable friend. The author also captures the complications of family dynamics, such as the three generations of women in the related stories "Lucky Us" and "Tragic Little Me." The stories in Think of Me and I’ll Know show that we are perhaps not much more comprehensible to ourselves than others are to us.
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Anthony Varallo is an associate professor of English at the College of Charleston. His previous story collections areOut Loud (2008; winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize) and This Day in History (2005; winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award).
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A sure sign of a great short story is when, at the end of it, you want the story to go on. That’s just what happens with Some Other Life, the first tale in Varallo’s third collection. Mira’s job and relationship ennui heighten her imagination but leave readers wondering what is real. Most of Varallo’s characters are young and make all the dumb and maybe even dumber mistakes each generation makes. They dwell in too much self-centeredness and worry about what others might think and indulge in a whole lot of deception to cover all these insecurities up. There’s the pretentious college boyfriend in The Nature and Aim of Fiction whose high-school girlfriend isn’t mature enough to call his bluff, and the sweet-natured 11-year-old Jonas in No One at All who lets his dominating friend rule. In fact, a lot of Varallo’s characters are in relationships with people who are no good for them or just plain no good. Some readers will wholly identify with them, while others will wish they could shake some sense into them. --Laurie Borman
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