A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg

Author:Garth Risk Hallberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Thanks to modern biotechnology practices, traces of Irony’s DNA are now present in the genome of almost all the other organisms that comprise the North American Family.

SEE ALSO:

•CONSENSUS •DEPRESSION •DISCRETION•FAMILY VALUES •FRIEND OF THE FAMILY •GRIEF•INFIDELITY •MATERIAL •OPTIMISM•PROVIDENCE •SECURITY

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You’d seen him when they wheeled him in, you would’ve said forty-eight hours to maybe seventy-two at the outside. Even under the sheet on the gurney, you could tell from the way the fluids had begun to seep, like the way grease from a cheesesteak will turn the bag almost clear where it soaks through. Anytime you’re talking about second- or third-degree, you’re talking about a lot of fluid loss. That’s the major danger. Think of a piece of meat that’s been overcooked. That’s all we are, really. Now you have Dr. Ross running around like the Queen of Spain because her case study’s coming out in JAMA. And I’ll give her credit for pioneering the technique—there’s some who won’t, but what do I know about it? But there’s a big difference between keeping someone from dying and giving them a reason to live. And since that seems to be the point of your question, let me just mention his family and that little cheerleader who made the cookies. They were there every day when I came on, and she was there when I went off.

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