Granta Do You Remember The weekend her father left left the house the town the country everything packing so lightly I believed he would come back he said You can raise Nickie by yourself You ll be good at it And I had

The weekend her father left left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back he said You can raise Nickie by yourself You ll be good at it And I had said, Are you on crack And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, Yes, a little Lorrie Moore Hey, Paul yelled out Why s everybody talking behThe weekend her father left left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back he said You can raise Nickie by yourself You ll be good at it And I had said, Are you on crack And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, Yes, a little Lorrie Moore Hey, Paul yelled out Why s everybody talking behind the patient s back Shut up, we re having sex, she called back She poured a cup for herself He seems pretty chipper this morning Yeah, I don t know what to hope for, I said Quality, I guess And then not too much quantity David Gates If everything we said had been a poem, the index of first lines would have formed a pattern Do you remember , Tell me if I remember wrong , There was that time , Wasn t it funny when Anne BeattieAnd Abeer Ayyoub, Bernard Cooper, Olivia Laing, Laura Kasischke, Thomas McGuane, Colin McAdam, Katherine Faw Morris, Melinda Moustakis, Norman Rush, Edmund White and Joy Williams
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Granta 126: Do You Remember Best Read || [Sigrid Rausing]
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Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.