Melanie Bishop

Each character is introduced with one specific detail, and then bam, surprise pregnancy. Marriage. We’ve slid into the world of this essay with so little fanfare. Another writer might spend pages developing the romance, building the relationship, pondering the pregnancy issue. But Sundberg gets right to the crux matter: two people, a child, a lot of unknowns. A crap shoot. We feel already a foreboding, from only two sentences.