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Even for those of us who readsemi-professionally, there are the ones that got away.

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The main character claimsHamlet…and then loses his job.

We all have our blind spots.

Is there a better endorsement?

She was pretty in a way that men thought women ought to be pretty.

Eva says the wrong thing, leaves a mess, walks through the house with a lit cigarette.

Isabel seethes, the intensity of her emotion quietly roiling.

The Safekeepis in some ways hard to characterize.

Isabel clings to the house and the structures she has imposed there because she has nothing else.

They are everyday, understandable sins, banal and piercing.