Geography - Second Place, Wallace Prize for Fiction
I don’t like math, talk of the economy goes over my head, and it baffles me that the dollar is backed on “good faith,” but I’ve got a soft spot for the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. I used to tell George, without Galbraith, we might never have met. George was finishing his book when I came to work at Dottie’s, and he spent every afternoon that spring at the corner table wading through a manuscript the size of Ulysses. The note was face up on the table when I passed by on my way to the coffee bar. The task is yours my friend, read the messy scrawl, “the freshness and spontaneity that...
