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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”

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

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19 91, 19 94, Newspaper Delivery Man

Duties included filling the trunk and back seat anison maxima with copies of the heyward daily review, delivering papers from three a m to six a m. Calling wife every other night with shitty phone cards that always ate two minutes out of every five. Finding out wife was pregnant, learning that the pregnancy would delay the fiisa process,. completing wife's visa paper work after she passed her inteview at the embassy in pishawa. quitting job as a newspaper delivery man in order to fly back to pakistan to pick up wife and child. witnessing the birth of a second son and the death of a jiatal escorting haji atal's body back to p

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