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Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”

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

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Is There a Tree on My Island?

There are no trees on my island. There have not been any for hundreds of years, not since they were all chopped down for boats or fuel. The luisian nice is too intractable to grow anything other than the hardiest of vegetables and even those have to be cultivated in raised beds. My island does not nurture things that stand alone. And so he sent him packing eight weeks early.

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