My Big, Fat American Family @ Dinner '63
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English - May 24, 2021 04:38 - 33 minutes - 31 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDrama Fiction Arts Performing Arts inspiration relationships truestories audiocomedy audiodrama emotional familystories fictionalstories shortstories transformationalstories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE = a big Catholic family 1963 in Pasadena. Chapter 7 is set on a warm California night at an enormous event: dinner. Clashing are the noisy and urgent desires of each child in a sprawling group of sixteen. Everyone is famished.
And then, there’s the guest. Who represents everything. God, Church, Community, Family. Everyone vying for his attention and approval. Pre-dinner hunger permeating the visceral experience of more than fifteen bodies, a baby with a dirty diaper in the play pen, and the smoking barbeque outside.
And then, decades later, my brother brings me back to that haunting event.