The Constancy of Things

All it took was that first bite for her to realize that she had indeed been hungry, not just for food, but for pleasure, for

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Sheila Kohler’s novels include The Bay of Foxes, Dreaming for Freud, Becoming Jane Eyre, and Open Secrets She is also the author of three short-story collections and a memoir, Once We Were Sisters.. She teaches creative writing at Princeton and Columbia universities.

 

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