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She pretended to read, even turning the pages at proper intervals, but the text was just lines on a page, nothing she could form into meaningful words. Namin took a book and waited outside, leaning against the outer wall of her house. Would they make small talk? Would she ask how his wife-who was nauseated not by him, but by the new creation of their child-was faring this morning? And this last plagued her worst of all: Should she apologize for the mess? Or was the right answer to pretend there was nothing to be ashamed of, nothing he should feel ashamed of? Namin tried to rehearse what she would say when he came out. The knot was tight against his back, and he was squatting to examine something. His apron was tied smartly behind him, the two sides of the bow perfectly symmetrical. He stepped into the bathroom, ducking around the doorway to find the light. Somehow the idea of asking how much the service cost was more than she could bear. Namin thought, I don’t even know how much to pay him. Wuertz applied the Test to her debut novel, Everything Belongs to Us, and reported the following:įrom page 69: He pulled out two long plastic sleeves, which he rolled over his shirtsleeves. She lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and son. She holds a BA in English from Yale University and an MFA in fiction from New York University. Yoojin Grace Wuertz was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to the United States at age six.
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