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Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter”

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

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The Last Thought of Nadine Cohen

He thought of knocking on the pregnant woman's door to ask if he could wait inside until he heard back from Hilla. Would her husband be home? Her boyfriend, whatever the father. Cohen had seen him too, as young as she, but lacking her presence and beauty. He was about to bring his knuckles down when he discovered a photo of the couple taped there in the middle.

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