Her therapist tells us bluntly: “She makes jokes even when she feels terrible.įrancine Prose’s review of The Most of Nora Ephron (2013) in the Novemissue of The New York Review of Books raises insightful questions about the use of humor in Heartburn: Yet when you laugh you might be avoiding tears. Especially when not suspecting anything remotely of the kind, she willingly gives the recipe to her. For Rachel Samstat, Heartburn’s betrayed wife, it’s certainly not funny that her husband’s having an affair with a woman who just came to dinner and asked for her carrot cake recipe. Why does she turn a sad, disturbing, and enraging reality into funny?ĭivorce isn’t a laughing matter. Her novel, Heartburn (a barely fictionalized account of the end of her marriage), even manages to make us laugh at divorce.
She could make us laugh at our necks, and at almost anything. “’Tis the season to be jolly.” It’s also the season to miss people.
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