DemonCopperhead

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Mina’s

April 11, 2023

March 6, 2023, 6:30pm

“The surprise of seeing her body all at once, the pale bikini of untanned skin like invisible clothes over the 🍑es
of breasts and her cooch.”

🍑 cobbler cut in a little square. Right now,
I could draw that cobbler.”

“Mom is gorgeous, she’s killing him with it, prettier than two 🍑es”


Rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

“Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz

Barbara Kingsolver Mike Belleme for The New York Times

Two awards were given in this category: to Barbara Kingsolver, for a recasting of the Charles Dickens novel “David Copperfield” set in Appalachia. The narrator’s “wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse – and his efforts to conquer them, the committee said. Hernan Diaz was honored for “Trust” which explores family, ambition and wealth through linked narratives in different literary styles.

Crying in H Mart

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May 22

Wendy’s

6:30pm

“Her gray hair frizzy, cheekbones protruding like the tops of two 🍑 es, tattooed eyebrows rusting as the ink fades out. ”

“There were 🍑 -colored roses and white hydrangeas to decorate the tables, budding lilies, cream and chartreuse, to strew over the wooden arbor we’d pass under in the ceremony.”

“Metal containers full of jeotgal, salt-fermented seafood banchan, affectionally known as rice thieves, because their intense, salty flavor cries out for starchy, neutral balance; raw, pregnant crabs, floating belly up in soy sauce to show off the unctuous roe protruding out from beneath their shells; millions of minuscule 🍑 -colored krill used for making kimchi or finishing hot soup with rice; and my family’s favorite, crimson sacks of pollack roe smothered in gochugaru, myeongnanjeot.”

Rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑

Food: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

A Long Petal by the Sea

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Suzanne’s

October 25, 6:30pm

“There were none of the usual fresh-cut flowers or the smell of 🍑es and melons from the country estate that usually filled the air, no music on the radio, not even the dogs’ noisy welcome. ”

“Quite often, she would turn up with strange dishes like cold zucchini soup or chicken with cinnamon and 🍑es.”

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑.5

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