Sunday Sentence: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.

The news of Anders Eckman’s death came by way of Aerogram, a piece of bright blue airmail paper that served as both the stationery and, when folded over and sealed along the edges, the envelope. Who even knew they still made such things? This single sheet had traveled from Brazil to Minnesota to mark the passing of a man, a breath of tissue so insubstantial that only the stamp seemed to anchor it to this world.

Opening lines of State of Wonder by Ann Patchett