As for his country, he decides, turning off the shower, it is only a matter of time before this clumsy puberty has passed. The washer and dryer are as much a part of the apartment’s fabric as in the West, and the new brands of yogurt and juice suggest that the days of plastic buckets and steel vessels are numbered. Until then, he must take pride in his present, for to suffer it in this way betrays not just your poor stock or choices but that you don’t stand by your stock and your choices. He presses his face to the towels, the blue detergent smell he has known all his childhood, and reminds
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