The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
by Lev Grossman
This novelette version of Mark and Margaret living August 4th over and over preceded the
Amazon movie by about three years, but the charm of both teens and
their growth through the repeating day was evident even in this original version. If you
read the standalone Kindle version of the story, you’ll be rewarded with an epilogue
where Gooseman talks about the path he took from the novelette to his first screenplay
that became the movie, which we awarded a Gold Eloi Medal.
— Michael Main
“Look, I don’t know how to put this exactly,” I said, “but would you happen to be
trapped in a temporal anomaly? Like right now? Like there’s something wrong with
time?”
“The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” by Lev Grossman, in
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins
(St. Martin’s Griffin, May 2016).