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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”

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

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A Novel of Gretel's Life and Times

Gretel wants to grow bigger so she can leave this small northern California town. She enjoys solving problems, helping people, reading, doing math and playing dungeons and dragons. Her parents live in an A-frame on the mountain with wild turkeys, coyotes, bears, and elk. Gretilda spends too much on groceries her husband Hans contends. He doesn't know how they'll survive.

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