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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Problem With Women Falling Out of Love

Cajal was told by a cleaner that he didn't give her any Christmas cards. She also said to some of you we are just cons, but she is often heard Irish men referring to women in this way. It's simply about not giving, she said. Whether it's not giving us the vote, or not giving help with the dishes, it's all clitched to the same wagon. He looked at her then and saw something ugly about himself,. Looking back at him, not angrily, but calmly in her gaze. Can you not even understand what I am talking about?

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