At the end of every chapter of Susan Tepper’s new novella From the Umberplatzen, the main character gets something small in the mail: a rabbit’s foot, a jar of peanut butter, the tail of a kite, etc. Each small thing tokens a moment from her brief romance with a German man while traveling abroad. The chapters themselves tell the stories of those moments, placing the tokens in context, as the narrator hints at what caused her to run away to Europe in the first place.
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