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Jennifer Egan - Emerald City and Other Stories

Teresa Gallagher

Justine Willett

Miranda Davies

Jennifer Egan

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A young girl makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her guilt-ridden brother.

After a tragic accident, a young girl makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her guilt-ridden brother. Read by Teresa Gallagher.

The next in our series of stories from 'Emerald City', the new collection by young American author Jennifer Egan, whose 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and made her name as one of the best new writers to emerge in the past decade.

In today's story, 'One Piece', a young girl takes drastic action to put the broken pieces of her brother's life back together again.

The Abridger is Miranda Davies
The Producer is Justine Willett
Reader: Teresa Gallagher.

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Five pithy stories from the acclaimed US writer, Jennifer Egan

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