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

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

CHAPTER

The Life of Marguerite Webb

A letter from Stichney, Pop had passed. Marguerite felt only now an urgency to return so that he could meet his granddaughter. With Pop gone, Milton wrote, Eugene no longer had a role at the paper. I worry for him, he said as if Milton were in a place to judge. He knew that Eugene had been Marguerite's first baby. Born when she was two, he let her dress him in ridiculous outfits,. His drunkenness hurt her more than Milton's.

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