Short-a-Day: Tessa Hadley's "Clever Girl"
Originally published in The New Yorker, June 6, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 7."I unbuttoned the skirt and stepped out of it, still staring at the book. Something had happened; I could see all of the elements of the problem differently now, as if they had arranged themselves naked under a bright light." A minute ago, the "sulky stepdaughter" Stella had been attempting to solve her physics homework, a…