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Writing

Essays | July 31, 2007

My Other Village: Middlemarch by George Eliot


Published at: Chekhov's Mistress

Excerpt:

As ever, books were my consolation. My family immigrated to Queens, New York in March of 1976 when I was seven. My two sisters and I enrolled at PS 102 that spring so I had three months of second grade then went on to the third grade in ...