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Christine Schutt

Fiction

The Duchess of Albany

A widow in slow decline, accompanied by dog and garden.

"The brief hello of summer and its long, long good-bye. Great piles of death she hauled to the woods to the dead pile. Farewell to the flowers of summer, to plume poppy and Vernonia. Turk’s-cap lilies, delicate as paper lanterns at the height of their glowing, good-bye."

Christine Schutt Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Jun 2013 15min Permalink