![]() ![]() ![]() This opening to Marie-Helene Bertino’s wonderful story does this in multiple ways.įirst, we get Bob Dylan and the idea that our unnamed narrator is bringing him home for Thanksgiving. I pull our bags from the trunk.Ī great short story opening-or a great opening to any piece-should make the reader want to turn the page. He wears a black leather coat and has spent the entire ride from New York trying to remember the name of a guitarist he played with in Memphis. Bob Dylan opens the car door, stretches one leg and then the other. ![]() We park in front of my mom’s house-my mom, who has been waiting for us at the door, probably since dawn. It is the year I bring Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving. There are American flags on school windows, on cars, on porch swings. Favorite Opening: “North Of,” Marie-Helene Bertino ![]()
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