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Short-a-Day: T. Coraghessan Boyle's "What Separates Us from the Animals" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in Harper's Magazine, October 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 86.Is there any sort of character, any tone, that T. C. Boyle cannot write? Smooth as ever, he quickly introduces us to the first-person manners and mannerisms of Margaret McKenzie, a good old slightly homophobic, racist, old-fashioned, and orderly committee member of a small township. Parenthetical asides enforce her l…

SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:24AM on November 25, 2010

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