“This is my house—it doesn't have any curtains and half the time half the door is open, that's true.” Claire-Louise Bennett reads from her debut book, Pond (Riverhead Books, 2016), which is featured in “First Fiction 2016: Nine More Notable Debuts” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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