Can You Feel This by Julie Orringer-A Short Story- 2019 -36 Pages

 Can You Feel This by Julie Orringer-A Short Story- 2019 -36 Pages

Having recently viewed the Netflix series Transatlantic, inspired by Julie Orringer's marvelous novel The Flight Portfolio, I was delighted to discover an original short by Orringer was available in the Kindle Unlimited program.

"Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours—and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story."

From Amazon 

Set in contemporary New York City Orringer perfectly embodied in this story how hidden tragedie

from long ago, the weight of pushed away deaths shape the woman giving birth

Julie Orringer’s Can You Feel This? is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single setting.

Julie Orringer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio, The Invisible Bridge, and How to Breathe Underwater. Winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.