Short-a-Day: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's "A Withered Branch" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in The New Yorker, April 18, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 22.[Translated from the Russian by Anna Summers.] "I met my twin soul at dawn on a narrow street by the cathedral," writes the short-story writing protagonist of Petrushevskaya's piece. She has just arrived in Vilnius, and despite the narrow sexual escape of the previous night, in which her hitchhike-enabling trucker choos…

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