A Primer For the Punctuation of Heart Disease Summary
Jonathan Safran Foer

A Primer For the Punctuation of Heart Disease Overview

"A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" is a short story by American author Jonathan Safran Foer. It was originally published in The New Yorker in 2002. The story is largely autobiographical, and is structured as a primer, or instruction book, for understanding the way members of the speaker's family communicate with one another. Replete with unique punctuation symbols and possessing no discernible plot, the story is avant-garde in its structure. It explores themes of familial communication, shared trauma, and challenging literary conventions.