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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The Girl's Laughs, the Nurse's Tears
Gretilda says her daughter fakes gross illnesses to avoid school. The mother's repeatedly told the girl, while sobbing, that she suffered a terrible childhood. She lived with cousins, then strangers, then at a hairdressing school. If it weren't for the daughter, the mother explains, she'd be a doctor now.
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