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Deborah Eisenberg

Days

Days

A short story by Deborah Eisenberg written in the form of a diary of a woman who quits smoking and takes up exercise.

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  • Phoebe Ward
    Phoebe WardFirst to rec

    “A 40 page short story told in the form of a diary of a woman who quits smoking and takes up exercise. Spare and funny and so startingly relatable, it felt like it could have been written by one of my fellow misanthropic Gen Z/millenial peers instead of a woman born in 1945.”

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