Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 256
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Our Mothers Before Them” author: Jenny Zhang, who I stumbled upon at Shakespeare & Company last summer in Paris year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: From the NYer, “Sour Heart is a feminist bildungsroman—the narrators act upon their world just as much as the world acts upon them—and it depicts, from start to finish, a…
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300 short stories: story 253
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Wild Milk” author: Sabrina Orah Mark year: 2014 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: From Tin House a line: “In the hallway, I pass a mother covered in daughters. I count approximately five. I hold up my bundled son, like a form of identification. Like he will provide me safe passage across…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 