An image. I am nineteen and finishing Don DeLillo’s 1997 novel Underworld on Alden Library’s main floor and can barely see the last paragraphs through tears. I had read most of the book that August between dishwashing shifts and in between Kool Blues smoked on the roof and while on my back in bed, the novel’s tome-y heft strengthening my forearms while hollowing me out.
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