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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Story of a Shoddy

Romy's father was dying of cancer and she had come to take care of him. They took walks while he could still walk, and when he couldn't anymore, they spent long hours watching detective series and nature documentaries. During the many wordless stretches of the film stretches in which one hears ear horns and the sound of bulldozers,. Romy felt aware of herself watching and the others also watching at the moment Mr Boddy was planning to take his life. Soon after that a woman stood up and walked out - it created an unspoken bond between those who remained among those I wouldn't give away.

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