story: “Pet Milk”
author: Stuart Dybek
year: 1984
where: Aspen
note: I want to try a King Alphonse drink sometime.
a line: “There was a yellow plastic radio on her kitchen table, usually tuned to the polka station, though sometimes she’d miss it by half a notch and get the Greek station instead, or the Spanish, or the Ukrainian. In Chicago, where we lived, all the incompatible states of Europe were pressed together down at the staticky right end of the dial. She didn’t seem to notice, as long as she wasn’t hearing English.”
theme(s): Memory, Associations, Young Love, Waiting,
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