\nby Rachel Kushner<\/span>
\nfrom the November 30, 2015 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a>[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]R[\/fusion_dropcap]achel Kushner first came to my attention when she was a finalist for the National Book Award for her 2008 debut novel Telex from Cuba<\/em>. In 2013, her second novel was also a finalist for the National Book Award and went on to the Folio Prize’s shortlist. This past year, one of my favorite publishers, New Directions, published The Strange Case of Rachel K<\/em>.<\/em>, a collection of three of Kushner’s early stories. So, really, from the first days of this blog until now, Kushner’s name has been on my radar, but shamefully I have still not read a word of her work. I have no good excuses, and even less now that she has her first New Yorker<\/em> story.<\/p>\n