But if Slava wished to become an American, to strip from his writing the pollution that refilled it every time he returned to the swamp broth of Soviet Brooklyn, if Slava Gelman – immigrant, baby barbarian, the forking road spread-eagled before him – wished to write for Century, he would have to get away. Dialyze himself, like Grandmother’s kidneys.
-Boris Fishman
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