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

Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

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

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I'd Never Been So Far Away From My Mother, but That Was What Elated Me, My Untapped Capacity

"I thought my mother had probably never had really good sex," says Cara. "My mother was horrified that i was so unlike the cara she'd always known" Brodie made up stories for their rides, including how they were going to work on a date farm and sing in his grandmother's hotel restaurant. They didn't have money for hotel rooms if they wanted to eat or sleep outside when night fell.

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