The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever … - Anthony Marra

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I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Anthony Marra

The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was right around the time I was giving up on a doomed, never-to-be-seen first novel. While I saw it could be something bigger, in hindsight fortuitous timing was as responsible as anything.

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She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

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Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

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A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.

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We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

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