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Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

J P's Story

When J p was 18 or 19 years old and out of high school, he went across town to visit a friend. This friend lived in a house with a fireplace. A young woman, chimney sweep, is there with her cleaning things. She's wearing a top hat, the sight of which knocked j p for a loop. In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well,. But nothing fell on him, and nothing closed off that little circle of blue. Then his dad came along with the rope, and it wasn't long beforeJ p was back in the world he'd always lived in.

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