Sublime

“For five dollars more I’ll do it.”

To Michelle Kane. I can never thank you enough for introducing me to the term “refresh blister” and for caring as much about this book as I do.

trenchant,

but the tender moments of anticipation remain.

She will, she decides, keep him for the night unless she thinks he’s a genuine danger: she will send nobody back for a bad T-shirt or a haphazard approach to home deodorizing, for cutting his own hair, for rewatching The Wire, for filling the living room with Funko Pops. She does not have the fortitude, tonight, to explore the parameters of the

In other words, he had finally worked his way up to the lowest spot on the totem pole.

She felt pleasure in orderly things—a perfectly efficient section of code,

because in America you got nothing for free.