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The King is Always Above the People
Daniel Alarcón
‘It was the year I left my parents, a few useless friends, and a girl who liked to tell everyone we were married, and moved two hundred kilometres downstream to the capital.’
The Complaint
Judy Budnitz
‘The first few apartments Claude inspects have the air of people who haven't budged in years.’
Room After Room
Jonathan Safran Foer
‘Her heart is kept in a room with a very expensive security system.’
Where East Meets West
Nell Freudenberger
‘How can we presume to know what other people's experiences are like?’
Exile
Olga Grushin
‘For one instant, while all this seemed possible, he listened to the violent unfolding of his heart.’
Passover in New Orleans
Dara Horn
‘The moon was bright and round, as it always is on Passover, like a coin resting on the moist black velvet of the spring night sky.’
Hard Core
Gabe Hudson
‘My buddy Meat’s the one who showed me the true joy of handling the M203.’
Gabe Hudson in Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2.
Dance Cadaverous
Uzodinma Iweala
‘It just seemed like the right thing to want, the right thing to do.’
