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  1. keith prime
  2. the age of love
  3. frequently asked questions about your craniotomy
  4. WHAT HAPPENS DURING A CRANIOTOMY?
  5. IS IT TRUE I WILL HAVE TO BE AWAKE DURING MY CRANIOTOMY?
  6. WON’T I BE IN PAIN IF I’M AWAKE DURING MY CRANIOTOMY?
  7. WHAT WILL MY BRAIN BE LIKE AFTER MY CRANIOTOMY?
  8. WHAT ARE THE COMPLICATIONS THAT CAN OCCUR FROM A CRANIOTOMY?
  9. WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE ST. TERESA OF ÁVILA HOSPITAL FOR MY CRANIOTOMY?
  10. CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SURGICAL TEAM?
  11. YOU’RE KIND OF ANGRY, AND THAT’S NOT VERY PROFESSIONAL. IS EVERYTHING OKAY?
  12. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT NOT BEING A NEUROSURGEON?
  13. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE?
  14. DID YOU TAKE THE ADVICE OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE REINCARNATION OF YOUR MOTHER?
  15. WHAT ELSE DID YOUR FAMILY THROW IN THE POOL?
  16. architecture for monsters
  17. the promised hostel
  18. you will never be forgotten
  19. camp jabberwocky for recovering internet trolls
  20. to save the universe, we must also save ourselves
  21. realtor to the damned
  22. not setsuko
  23. acknowledgments
  24. A Note About the Author
  25. contents

A Note About the Author

Mary South is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University. For many years, she has worked as a contributing editor at the literary journal NOON. She is also a former intern in The New Yorker’s fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NOON, and Words Without Borders, and on NewYorker.com. The writer Maile Meloy awarded her story “Not Setsuko” an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All-Story fiction contest. She lives in New York City. You can sign up for email updates here.

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contents

  1. title page
  2. copyright notice
  3. dedication
  4. keith prime
  5. the age of love
  6. frequently asked questions about your craniotomy
  7. architecture for monsters
  8. the promised hostel
  9. you will never be forgotten
  10. camp jabberwocky for recovering internet trolls
  11. to save the universe, we must also save ourselves
  12. realtor to the damned
  13. not setsuko
  14. acknowledgments
  15. praise for you will never be forgotten
  16. a note about the author
  17. copyright

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* “Broken Rib Cage” is the widely used nickname of the tower. The official but considerably lesser known title is Cleft Torso. Dannenforth has attempted to correct journalists and interviewers about this fact in the past only to be met with confusion; to spare herself the hassle, she, too, now refers to it as Broken Rib Cage.

* America is an idea that there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is, so said Gertrude Stein, herself a nurturer of great talent under her tent of personality. “There are vast tracts in this nation that are beyond vacant space, they’re degraded space, zombie space. It’s the pastoral of the forlorn mini mall,” Helen pontificated. We were on the topic of the factory she built in North Carolina for HUSK, the high-end furniture manufacturer. It is caterpillarean, raised up on disembodied legs, looking to crawl away over the terrain in an instant. When the company went out of business, it was converted into a museum of artifacts endemic to the United States: slot machines based on horror films, the face of our Savior inscribed on toast and sundry pastries, toilet seat mosaics. “A region that has been populated and then forgotten triggers sentimentality, which is why we have a predilection for kitsch. It’s funny how everything has to prove that it is what it is.”