Such exorbitant crying! Just when the old woman thought she had stopped crying, the girl would start again. The sound raised in the old woman gladness and amazement, and she lay awake to listen, but all she heard was crying; the rest she made-up.
Infidelity? Boredom?
– by Christine Schutt, 2009 Pulitzer Prize fiction finalist (All Souls)
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