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Sunday, October 7, 2007

A New Gravestone for an Old Grave by David Bezmozgis

This is a fabulous story. One day Victor is asked by his father to to to Latvia to oversee the cutting of his gravestone. The father's connection in Latvia had just died and he still hadn't had his stone prepared for his imminent death and he had no one to trust but Victor. Victor has quite the adventure to find the stone cutter and find out about his father's gravestone.
"And then he awoke and dialed and had a conversation with his father. A conversation in which his father asked him how everything went. If he met the stone cutter. If he saw the gravestone. If everything looked as it should. And Victor answered his father, saying yes about the stone cutter, yes about the gravestone. Yes about everything. He answered him and said that everything was perfect, just the way he imagined it."

Because in the end, it didn't really matter what Victor told his father...he wouldn't know the difference anyway...

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