These ‘Seven Stories About Tammy’ Add Up to One Brilliant Piece of Writing
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 Seven Stories About Tammy does much the same for the family saga.
As its title bluntly announces, Seven Stories About Tammy…
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