I just read Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker and it nearly made me cry. It’s a beautiful short story about communication difficulties, diaspora, and homesickness.
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I just read Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker and it nearly made me cry. It’s a beautiful short story about communication difficulties, diaspora, and homesickness.
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Each of the times I’ve moved from apartment to apartment (and finally, on this move, to an actual, full-sized house), there have been great difficulties loading and unloading all of my crap– difficulties innate to the houses themselves. These were usually small hardships, involving the clever rotation of a sofa or armchair in order to wrestle it out the door.
This time, however, I came to a horrifying revelation: None of my existing furniture would be able to A.) fit within the cramped dimensions of the narrow staircase or B.) make it around the corner in the shallow hallway to my room.
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