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Agnes of Iowa
Lorrie Moore
‘Through college she had been a feminist – more or less. She shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.’

Menudo
Raymond Carver
‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’

Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle
Herta Müller
‘Who knows: what I write I must eat, what I don’t write – eats me.’

The Summer After the War
Kazuo Ishiguro
‘As it was, my grandfather began helping me to paint without my having to ask him.’

At Yankee Stadium
Don DeLillo
‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’

The Little Winter
Joy Williams
‘She remembered being happy off and on that day, and then looking at things and finding it all unkind.’