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Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

J P, Quit Tak, He Just Clambs Up.

J p and roxy are having some real fights now. J p says that one time she hit him in the face with her fist and broke his nose. Things got out of hand, but he kept on drinking. He'd go to work with a thermus bottle of vodka in his lunch pail. And nothing could make him stop, not even with roxy's dad and her brother threatening to beat hell out of him. They told rox she should take the kids and clear out. But roxy said it was her problem, and she'd solve it.

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