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Private novelist nell zink6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Maybe it’s just ovarian cancer?” They have a baby named Flora and a record label and then Joe signs with a major. “I should get a pregnancy test,” she concludes soon after. Pam promptly falls in love with Joe’s friend Daniel. ![]() “I never knew this knob did anything,” he says, discovering his own volume. The manager of the cafe that semi-employs him likes Joe “because he was good for business, always rhapsodizing about fries and soda in a way that made them sound exponentially more wonderful than chips and tap water, plus he never stole.” The man strums his bass guitar and writes a song every day and talks to pigeons and makes friends with the homeless in Washington Square and then he gets an amp. He’s a borderline slur of a character, mentally disabled, simultaneously deeply simplistic and yet fantastically interesting. But Joe takes hold of her arm, and much more. “You are quite the mutant,” she tells him. “She was a leggy stranger in black jeans and a men’s V-neck undershirt, with a backpack and sleepover bag, 17 years old, lost, female, and invisible. She saw whores with recently hit faces.” It’s hard not to root for her. told her it was not a place she needed to be spending time. Another main character is New York City, where Pam, having left her controlling parents (her dad, Edgar, is a defense contractor in Washington, D.C) “emerged to the sidewalk at Forty-First Street and Eight Avenue. ![]()
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