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There’s anger in the sound of a V-8 engine that puts me at ease.

You’d probably prefer to sneak back into me very still, swollen.

I know exactly what to do when Papa has a seizure in the middle of the night.

Theirs was a free fall that went on and on. If it’s time to fall, let’s fall.

By the kitchen sink, my aunt held a fish as if holding the Holy Body.

The social-media world was ablaze with his daughter’s bagunça.

Welcome to my bed. I have these two beers, do you want them?

our minds are not the same if they were the same you would be here

In the school smock, I looked like an angel in search of her crèche.

Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Absence rarely makes the heart grow fonder, or so my mother said.

Lunatics call it annihilation . . . Think of it as not doing a thing

A plus B; a child in peril, plus love, dissolution of, equals a story.

“You look like you’re about to fall over,” he says. “Are you all right?”

Two bikers, the bartender, me, and a skinny girl in skintight blue jeans.

Let’s rummage through each other’s bodies like a blowout sale.

Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.

Even the busiest of businessmen are out for the count, paying the price.

There’s nowhere he can kiss where she hasn’t been kissed by the sun.

Her biggest secret was Jay Currie—her white American boyfriend.

Here, Min Jin reads from her novel at Narrative Night, New York City.

You don’t know what it’s like to be so hungry that you’d steal to eat.

Dainty morsels do not fail to attract gentlemen as well as ladies.

My father would have ended my clandestine career on the spot.

Youth! Goodness! Joy! Hope! Strange things to bring to a place like this.

We crossed the length of Iran to reach a lake so big they called it a sea.

The old hen scratches then looks, scratches then looks. My life.

I walked that land with him, one and mingling, breaking into breath.

You’ve gathered more knowledge than you’d need for nine lives.

It was our flesh with its deadly sweetness that led them on.