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He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.

Julia Kristeva, Ishiguro, Moacyr Scliar, Magris, Semprun, Baricco, Updike

What mother doesn’t love to cook with her little girl? Beneath that: And what little girl doesn’t love learning with Mom? Little bumps pocked the page all over, as if it had been out in the rain, and Lydia stroked them like Braille with her fingertip. She did not understand what they were until a tear splashed against the page. When she wiped it

“For five dollars more I’ll do it.”