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Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris has written four novels, including “ Then We Came to the End ” and “ A Calling for Charlie Barnes.”

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2 picks · 2009–2013

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The Breeze
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“The breeze, God, the breeze! she thought. You get how many like it? Maybe a dozen in a lifetime . . . and already gone, down the block and picking up speed, or dying out. What if she failed to make the most of what remained of this perfect spring day?” A short story by Joshua Ferris.