Aimee Bender "The Rememberer"



Aimee Bender "The Rememberer"

Introduction

Aimee Bender's unusual short story, “The Rememberer,” was first published in the Missouri Review in the fall of 1997. In 1998, Bender included the story in her debut collection, entitled The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. Most of the stories in the collection have a surreal, fairy-tale quality, and several feature bizarre physical transformations (in one story, for example, a woman gives birth to her own mother, and her husband wakes up to find a hole in his stomach “the size of a soccer ball” ).

Analysis

“The Rememberer” tells the story of a woman ...