story: Poor Girl
author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
year: 2018
where: desk, work work
note: surprises at every turn! (translated)
a line: “Not only did she keep the house and work, she also looked after her mother-in-law, a former language-arts teacher, who was crazy about the theatre and literary readings, enjoyed the courtship of elderly military officers, and regularly came home “under guard.” Laughter, late-night dinners—the father would bathe the girl and read her a bedtime story before coming to the table.”
samantha Neugebauer 