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Episode 145: Waiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"

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The Urban Myth

The narrator is one of the, like the winners, right? Yes. He has a knack for trade, exactly. So imagine at the center of this, these makeshift little shelters with people living in absolute filth, there's this store where you can actually trade to obtain the necessities of life. And he has a kind of store, him and his partner Gigi, who is also maybe his girlfriend. They think somebody's pilfering stuff when they're not looking; so they have a gun and they have to guard their store. That's the center of much of the action. Is like, how is he going to protect his mountain of junk, which is priceless in this world

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