She must have been beautiful and spirited and very helping. She was also a reflexive lib who assumed anyone with a heart had to be a lib, and if you were conservative, you were heartless, especially if you'd come from less than "advantaged" circumstances...
Now a little thing that fascinates me is that he describes briefly his wife dying of heart failure in NYC in a hospital waiting to get attention.
What he doesn't write - I learned it elsewhere - is that the date was 9/11/01! What a time to need urgent medical attention in NYC! Yet he doesn't refer to that.
What he does refer to, tho, is that when his wife was ill with her last illness that summer of '01, she was proofing his latest book: about parking problems in the city! And Trillin is proud of producing the book after her death, and without her continued help. Parking problems in NYC post 9/11! Wow...
I'm just shaking my head over these 2 facts: one of omission, and the other of commission...
Trillin is funny, but beyond his devotion to his wife and his quips, I do not understand the way his brain works, it's clear.
I’m convinced, Molly, that liberals have differently wired brains. I’ve been boycotting female novelists lately and some males as well....simply can’t take anymore PC and insertions of casual and graphic “love” scenes (aka sex romps) and the same tired subjects that enthrall them....but not me.