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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Story of a Shoddy

Mark would slap Romy hard on the ass thrusting himself into her and calling her a whore enacting some ancient pain that drove him to believe that the woman he loved would never remain true to him. One night after this performance mark had fallen asleep with his arms around her and Romy had lain awake for exhausted as she always was but couldn't sleep. Having no desire to stay and no desire to go she'd sunk back down on the edge of Mark's bed and felt the remote control under her. She switched on the tv and surfed the channels passed over the stories of mother elephants and bee colonies that she had watched with her father. Over the cold cases and the late night

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