Short story recommendation

Via Elizabeth McCracken on Twitter, I found Edan Lepucki's story "I Am the Lion Now", up now at Narrative. A few paragraphs from it:

Margaret thought she heard a suppressed roar coming from the kitchen. Before the turgid novel, she'd been reading a book about the history of al Qaeda; in it, the author told about Taliban members who had broken into an Afghan zoo. One man decreed the bear's "beard" too short and cut off the animal's nose; another zealot leaped into the lion's den yelling, "I am...

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Published on November 03, 2009 21:36
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