{"id":30096,"date":"2023-06-12T16:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=30096"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:55:46","slug":"said-sayrafiezadeh-civil-disturbance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2023\/06\/12\/said-sayrafiezadeh-civil-disturbance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh: “Civil Disturbance”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Civil Disturbance”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh<\/span>
\nfrom the June 19, 2023 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"T<\/span>his week’s story is another from Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, his eighth since 2010 when I started posting these. I’ve generally liked his stories, but at the same time I don’t remember them well. This one appears to be about some political canvassers, a few days before an election in which their candidate is losing. Tensions seem to be high, as we ease our way into the story:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re sitting underneath the overpass, Molly and I, lights off, motor on, staring\u00a0through the windshield at the row of houses up the hill. On Molly\u2019s lap, propped against the steering wheel, is the clipboard with the street addresses, about fifty of them, listed alongside the pertinent info\u2014name, age, etc.\u2014culled from the Internet and written in her perfect handwriting, evidence that she had gone to a good school in the suburbs. It\u2019s getting dark and it\u2019s getting cold, and neither one of us has said more than a few passive-aggressive sentences to the other, like when I thanked her for putting her window up, as if she\u2019d done me a big favor. \u201cYou\u2019re welcome,\u201d she said, but she only closed it halfway. The bickering had started after we both got home from work; first we were arguing, and then we were shouting, and then she disappeared into the bedroom and slammed the door hard, emerging fifteen minutes later, composed, dressed, and ready to go. Today\u2019s particular conflict had been set in motion by the banal\u2014who\u2019d left a cereal bowl in the sink\u2014but obviously indicated a wider problem. Plus, it was compounded by the latest poll numbers, which put our candidate three points behind, with three days to go until the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please feel welcome to comment on the story below!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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