My Face

By: Thaisa Frank

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Thaisa Frank works with what the New York Times has called "a tantalizing sense of indirection," in this short work of surrealistic fiction, as she writes about a couple who begin to spin the most mundane topics into fantastical bedtime stories for one another. Their narratives reveal what neither will say to each other directly and end in a surprising admission of truth.

©1993 Thaisa Frank (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

ACTUALLY STORIES WE BEGAN TO TELL

This book is NOT My Face, but instead is another book by this author: Stories We Begin to Tell. It is unfortunate that this book, as well as the other are both listed incorrectly, as both are very good listens, but totally different in content. So here I will review both.

This one: Stories We Begin to Tell

A seven-year-old girl whose only glimpses of joy and reality are when her loving father comes home from work, describes life with her strange and hostile mother, who is clearly mentally unstable. A very short listen with some hopeful parts, some break throughs near the end. Anyone who has ever dealt either with mental illness or alcoholism will appreciate this delicately written short listen.

The other one: My Face

My Face, although deeply disturbing, is the story of a husband and wife, who clearly have grown apart over many years of marriage. Told in a way that hits hard, probably harder than anything I’ve ever listened to over the years regarding marital estrangement, is so sad that after it was over I could hardly get it out of my head. Do not ever let this sort of monster invade your own mind or your own marriage.