A too-young (although is there an appropriate age?) school shooting victim simplifies things by telling us numbers. Hoke lets the charm of her character, in oh-so-simple MATH, slowly unwind the sheer horror, great and small. "There are one thousand four hundred eighty-five people who live in Rancho Tehama. That’s the biggest number I know of. " This is a short piece, but Hoke is as powerful and as thoughtful here as any of her work. Elegant, quiet, deceptively simple, and quite effective.
A too-young (although is there an appropriate age?) school shooting victim simplifies things by telling us numbers. Hoke lets the charm of her character, in oh-so-simple MATH, slowly unwind the sheer horror, great and small. "There are one thousand four hundred eighty-five people who live in Rancho Tehama. That’s the biggest number I know of. " This is a short piece, but Hoke is as powerful and as thoughtful here as any of her work. Elegant, quiet, deceptively simple, and quite effective.