The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises. Wealth announces itself with what’s easy to break and impossible to clean. She lived in a top-floor penthouse with a chest-tightening view, lined with thick white carpets that may have been polar bear pelts. As for Kolya, well, he’d been dead for years. I’d never even received first-class mail since the postal service introduced it six years ago, let alone a first-class train compartment. Galina called to say she had bought me a first-class ticket to Moscow, and then she said that my brother was dead. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. Marra is also the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. The following is from the title story from Anthony Marra’s collection, The Tsar of Love and Techno.
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