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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Praise for Leaving Word
“At once razor-sharp and humane, provocative and witty – an exuberant observation of the human condition. Every sentence is a gem.”
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‘It’s OK, you’re right. So how is Piet? How’s the project going?’
But she knew the answer to that. Piet had no interest in working for anyone. He had a wife with a rare skill who commanded stratospheric consulting fees, and it had suited him for a decade while he worked on his video documentary, Out of Balance. She had asked him about it regularly for years, wondered if it was a nod to the old Koyaanisqatsi film she got all inflamed about in her youth. It wasn’t. It was supposed to be an interview-based narrative that sought to say something about America through the eyes of its enraged and entrapped and encumbered. Not a bad concept. She doubted he had shot a single frame or spun even a thread of narrative purpose. She could have offered to help him, but his politics distressed her. She once asked him whether he was a Republican or Democrat. His answer was that voting was not his thing. That did it. An ordinary man. Humdrum. At best. But inoffensive, in a tolerable sort of way.
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