fromThe New Yorker
3 days agoCatherine Lacey on the Uses of Estrangement
My stories, more than my novels, tend to start with a single thing from my life, some kind of puzzle or confusion, whether it be directly autobiographical or a distortion of an experience I've had. The way this story starts is almost entirely true; while travelling with my husband, I lost the same exact things as Daria. I spent a day frustrated by the many annoying chores such a loss brings.
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