story: Hand on the Shoulder
author: Ian McEwan
year: 2012
where: office, NYU
note: Interesting to stumble upon this just after finishing Warlight
a line: “Then came the scene, in Suffolk or in London, and her ultimatum: get rid of the girl or march. Tony had made the obvious decision. But here’s the point. He had made another choice, too. He had chosen to cast himself as the victim, the wronged, the deceived, the rightly furious.”
samantha Neugebauer 