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A Novel
by Amy Chua
The grown-ups, paralyzed, were staring in horror at that pile of laundry, too frightened to step forward. On top of it lay Iris, like a broken doll, face up, dark curls strewn, one eye open, her bare neck twisted at a terribly wrong angle. My Dy-Dee doll died twice. Once when I snapped her head off … and once under the sun lamp trying to get warm, she melted.
Encircling Iris's grotesquely bent neck was a laceration, fresh and thin and red and angry.
Copyright © 2023 by Amy Chua
Excerpt from "A Peck of Gold" by Robert Frost from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1928, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1956 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. All Rights Reserved.
"The Death Baby" from The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1974 by Anne Sexton. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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