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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Long Shadow of His Father's Words

"I'm away from the story feeling that he's learned something, not necessarily that he can change," she says. "That moment is at turning point two because we see how central money is to his negative feelings about Sabine" She adds: "He always has to be protecting. And that's so, so sad."

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