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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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I Do This for You, You and Rose

Shara's grandfather has been seeing the world through the milky eye of glaucoma for five, six years. He eats one meal a day, and it's shara's duty and pleasure to feed him. Everything has to be gummable, soft tofoo. Hard boiled eggs that have been crushed with the tines of a fork,. oatmeal, jok. Breakfast is usually when he does all his gumming. And as a reward for her filial devotion, sarah receives a pat on the arm and her granda s version of a smile also.

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