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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Parallel Incidents

I want to think about that moment after the move in when he says, well, it's just a little too much reality for me. And here she's just given up her apartment and all her stuff is there. So in this particular scene, Gahal stops himself. He apologizes. He goes back in. But later he can't reach that realization or moment of grace and time. Right.

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