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Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”

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

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The post it turns out, is shocking. She doesn't expect to find what she's looking for in such abundance. An embarrassment of horrors. So many black boys dead. Could this one be him? In the absence of photos, how was she to tell a flash of insight that the boy in the window was a true ghost, already dead by the time of their meeting? How else to explain that nobody resembled him among the passengers disembarking from the bus and walking back to the hotel on the day of the olive garden excursion? Also, is it possible that the housing agency would give a room to an parented tea nager? This would also explain why he didn't partake in

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