{"id":30273,"date":"2024-06-10T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=30273"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:22:45","slug":"camille-bordas-chicago-on-the-seine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2024\/06\/10\/camille-bordas-chicago-on-the-seine\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Bordas: “Chicago on the Seine”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Chicago on the Seine”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Camille Bordas<\/span>
\nfrom the June 17, 2024 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"W<\/span>e’ve had a lot of stories by Camille Bordas in The New Yorker<\/em> over the past decade, and I’m always looking forward to more. I’m in a bit of a rush to get this up and get out the door this morning, so I don’t have a lot more to say to introduce the story. Here is the first paragraph!<\/p>\n

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I used to tell myself stories on the job, to make it feel exciting — spy stories, exfiltration stories, war stories. I used to come up with poignant little details that turned the repatriation cases I worked on into \u201cSaving Private Ryan,\u201d into \u201cJohnny Got His Gun.\u201d Repatriation<\/em>\u2014there\u2019s such a ring to it, such drama. I imagined maimed bodies in dirty tents, nurses changing brown, bloodied gauze, bending over beds to tell the wounded, \u201cThe call came in — you\u2019re going home.\u201d Yet I worked in Special Consular Services at our Embassy in Paris. The Americans I helped repatriate mostly broke legs in Pigalle or crashed rental cars in Normandy. Miracles didn\u2019t happen for them in Lourdes — people don\u2019t talk about it, but those for whom miracles don\u2019t happen in Lourdes tend to leave France in worse shape than they arrived in.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be reading it soon and posting my thoughts below. In the meantime, please share your thoughts below as well!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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