Originally published in The New Yorker, Jan. 10, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 72.An original series of images -- a fifty-year-old's recollection of her deformed birth as a surprise twin, her subsequent abandonment, and adoption and remolding by a caring janitor from the nearby reservation -- devolves at the very last moment into something about redemption and the true meaning of beauty. Erdrich reach…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:53AM on January 6, 2011