Willing Davidson and Camille Bordas discuss the author’s story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
His branch of special consular services typically deals with repatriation of U.S. citizens for whom things have gone awfully wrong abroad. I don’t exactly remember how or why I landed on this line of work—this narrator has been on my mind for so long. A few years ago, I actually wrote a whole novel in his voice. In the novel, he worked in the private sector , but his job was still medical repatriation.
In order not to get haunted by the dead, in order for your dead to become ancestors and tutelary figures instead of ghosts, you have to give them a certain number of things, a certain level of attention. The material covered in that class was so rich and layered that I’ve continued to think about it more than ten years later. “This leaves the door open to spectral invasion” is an actual sentence that was spoken in that class.
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