Artist Maira Kalman captures the items-from ticket stubs to maps, and salt shakers to cookbooks-with vibrant colors and a “messy-on-purpose” impression, which could easily reflect Min and Ed’s relationship itself. What first struck me about “Why We Broke Up” is the beautiful art included between chapters, illustrating each object in Min’s box for Ed. They cross paths at a party, and before we know it, the two are planning an 89th birthday party for actress Lottie Carson and arranging every element to be absolutely perfect for her. She is in the midst of dumping this letter on his doorstep, along with a box of the treasures she has kept that explain their short but serious relationship.Įd is a star basketball player in the opposite social circle from “arty” Minerva, Min for short.
In a letter to her ex-boyfriend, film-fanatic high schooler Min tells us every detail about her relationship with jock Ed Slaterton. Yes, this book is exactly what you think it is about. For this week’s review, I will share my thoughts on Daniel Handler’s young adult novel “Why We Broke Up,” published in 2011 by Little, Brown and Company. Officially, the health effects of food are entirely due to its nutritional content the amount of fat, salt, sugar and fibre it contains. This story kept me reading late into the night, and that is saying something, considering this wasn’t even the first time I read it. (Dec.Cover of Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman
Realize that Ed, even if he cares, lacks the wherewithal to read it-lending real pathos to Min’s memorabilia and making her sorrow all the more palpable. Halfway through Min’s impassioned epistle, readers may They can’t understand what she’s doing with him, but readers won’t have that problem-Handler shows exceptional skill at getting inside Min’s head and heart. Min loves classic cinema, and Handler invents false film titles like “Greta of the Wild” that Min and her platonic pal Al name-drop like an “old married couple.” Proceeding chronologically, Min recounts her doomed affair with Ed, a basketball star who shrugs at movies and commits gaffe after embarrassing gaffe in front of Min’s friends. Between chapters, readers gaze at Kalman’s almost totemic still lifes of each nostalgic item, which range from handwritten notes (“I can’t stop thinking about you”) to secondhand-store finds and movie tickets.
Accusatory yet affectionate-directed at “you, Ed”-it accompanies a hefty box of souvenirs Min accumulated during the two-month romance. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note. Handler and Kalman (13 Words) craft a book-length breakup letter from Min (short for Minerva) to her ex-boyfriend, Ed. Im writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box.
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