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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Getting Off to Sleep

It took a little while to get accustomed to having a home again. We had both lost the habit of coveting things. To our surprise, even getting off to sleep was difficult. It was as if we had clean forgotten how to feel at home in a home. And then we got used to it. Perhaps the fear that we must have pressed when we were out on the street had an opportunity to register now that we were inside a safe place. At least that's what we told ourselves and each other. The actual cause of our unnes was a little harder to countenance.

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