Showing posts with label Pittsburgh. Show all posts
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Friday, March 11, 2011

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon (William Morrow and Company 1988)


At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business. We'd just come to the end of a period of silence and ill will - a year I'd spent in love with and in the same apartment as an odd, fragile girl whom he had loathed, on sight, with a frankness and a fury that were not at all like him. But Claire had moved out the month before. Neither my father nor I knew what to do with our new freedom.