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There’s a flock of swans on a lake in the deepening autumn. As the nights grow colder, they all fly away. Except one, for reasons Alkaitis can’t remember: a lone swan who doesn’t perceive the approaching danger or loves the lake too much to leave even though it’s clearly time to go or is afflicted by hubris—the swan’s motivations were hazy and, Alk
... See moreEmily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
Each morning he clambers out of his closet and carries his traitorous heart down to the kitchen like an egg.
Ben Marcus • New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
careworn.
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.
Chloe Benjamin • The Immortalists
- The, You Know, Encroaching Darkness
Claire Dederer • Love and Trouble
like her child in a playpen in a distant part of the house, occupying her heart but not threatening to interrupt her dinner party,
Matthew Sullivan • Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
wit; it was a pleasure, for a while, to be a grown-up with another grown-up, to share a phase of life—early forties—and laugh about their fear of fifty.