Short-a-Day: Ramona Ausubel's "Atria"
Originally published in The New Yorker, April 4., 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 38.What's the line -- if there is one -- between humans and beasts? High-school sophomore Hazel Whiting doesn't see much of one; life is a "soggy thing" to her, her peers look "like helpless, hairless baby rats," and she decides that she will "survive each of these endeavors by not becoming invested." And yet (a phrase tha…
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