Preoccupied with the complexities of identity and selfhood memory embodiment loss and family Rebecca Pampampabrevepucaru carefully examines details that make up ones lived experience. Lobster Dinner describes a happy childhood memory of eating an entire lobster with an admiring father as her audience. Take It or Leave It is the casual and quotidian yet heartbreaking failure of a daughter and her mother to find an emotional connection during an art gallery outing. Your Women Are Beautiful betrays the dreamy excitement of travelling in an unfamiliar place juxtaposed with the blunt reality of arriving home again. The Panic Room is about the giants that loom over us too. A secondgeneration Eastern European Jewish immigrant Pampampabrevepucaru attempts to grapple with connecting with her familys past as well as the distinct feeling of being disconnected. In On Watching an Eastern Bloc Comedy she writes Im one generation apart from all this and ashamed. Of my father before his refrigerator mourning age spots on lettuce. Pampampabrevepucaru offers unabashed honesty the sort of reflections youd only tell your dearest friend. show more