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

Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”

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

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The Trans America - A Story of Hard Ship and Unexpected Bad Luck

Two nights later, her mother is crying again. She has been ambushed. Not the recent immigrants from mexico and south america who make up the hard working elmhurst crowd but bronx latino,. job absconders, benefits abusers, drug attics; drunks whose first response to a new neighbourhood is desecration, plunder. If we don't say nothing, they will keeping send people like that to our neighborhood, and we will be living for fear.

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