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Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

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

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The Wake of a Man's Message on the Train Home With Ava

I'd never had occasion to Google my own number until then and the wake of a man's message on the train home with Ava. The first hit was from a website called True People Search. Camila was listed under a section called Possible Relatives, and there was a list of addresses associated with the number. Our other addresses had been in big buildings, maybe that made me feel more protected and anonymous. But now we were one of just three units and it said which unit so this man knew exactly where my daughter slept,.

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