Allegra Goodman’s story, F.A.Q.’s tells about a young woman, Phoebe, who has just returned to her parents’ home in New Jersey After a taking a year off from college. The story focuses on the reaction of Phoebe’s parents, Melanie and Dan, to her return and to phoebe’s response to their reaction. In the midst of this back and forth dance of reaction and response, the question of who is taking care of whom arises. Are Melanie and Dan, through their ceaseless question (hence the title) taking care of Phoebe? or, ironically is Phoebe, their child taking care of them. In what ways does Goodman’s short story encourage us to re-think the relationship between parents and their college-age children?
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