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August 15, 2006

Avocado and Crab

By Margaret DeAngelis ¶ Posted in food, longing, novel, Nunez, Sigrid, remembering the past, uncategorized ¶ Leave a reply

The character has remembered fondly a woman she worked for at a fashion magazine: 

I have decided that nostalgia is itself a kind of love. From time to time it dictates that I absolutely must have avocado and crab for lunch.
          — Georgie, the main character in The Last of Her Kind, by Sigrid Nunez

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