Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Max Gross-Lewis, OC, Order of Canada, OQ.
Max Gross-Lewis was a Canadian politician and businessman in Quebec. For many years, he was Grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat First Nation. He traveled widely to other indigenous communities; this led to his involvement in politics. The story's writer, Matt Max Gross-Lewis, when he was 12 years old, on an anomalous family trip with his mother and his mother's boyfriend,. What the boy remembers of the trip is French onion soup, buying a French version of a Spider-Man comic book, morning croissants in the Chateau Frontenac.
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