Archive for August 1st, 2008
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
“Corner Store” by Brian Satrom
Brian Satrom CORNER STORE If there’d been an Asian-American Norman Rockwell, he might have painted a scene like this. The Vietnamese shopkeeper with gray, slicked-back hair and bony hands, a baseball game on his small black-and-white TV. And I, the white, dark-haired nine-year-old in cut-offs sliding a penny across the counter toward him. The title [...]
