the beauty of literature

Currently analyzing or taking closer looks at Saleema Nawaz Mother Superior short story collection - which is a recommendation all along! One of the stories - "The Beater" - is one of the very rare examples I know where an attempt at second person singular narrative voice actually works. The story opens with a memory of the paranoid mother who thinks that the husband (who used to beat her and thus she left him and 3 kids) had found her and was following.
“You stumble to keep up, legs trembling. You’re three, and fear is contagious.”
It is sentences like this that reassure me about being in the right field.