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… boy plays in an abandoned boat in what used to be the Aralsk Harbor. Brothers look out the train window at what used … been forbidden to pray. Mira’s reasons, however, were more complex; she hoped to one day adorn herself in hijab when … marriage town, there is something about Aralsk that has died. It is a beach town with no sea, a surreal endless …

… for the Saturday flea market. There are many ways of communicating in New York. One is through the names of Wi-Fi … being gifted at soccer wasn’t enough to become a coach. You also needed English. He struggled with the language, went at … out a niche in the first-floor landing. “When people died in these houses,” she said cheerfully, “the wakes used …

… lighthouse, now a pile of moss-covered concrete blocks overcome and entwined by tangled briars and poison oak. The … remained intact, repaired by my father and his hunting buddies. The padlock fell from the hasp and dangled on a chain. … from a toolbox to shuck and eat them raw. There were also mussels I yanked free and set on the stove till they …

… sage were flora of little rain. Day after day the heat had come out of Utah, moving against nothing until it reached … route, roping off in the pinons and rappelling, their bodies canted out into space. Discipline: that’s what Ramos … himself, shielding his head with his arms and his body. 426-437 By Kent Nelson …

… of the increasing futility of imposing homogeneity on a complex, ethnically and regionally diverse culture. … white trash eat as a main staple of an otherwise pork-heavy diet. His “Grits” are an American version of Yahoo, ready to … a kind of red-clay kraken that may yet rise again. 612-626 By John Seelye …