2020-10-02
1 小时 6 分钟ZZ Packer joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Who Will Greet You At Home,” by Lesley Nneka Arimah, which appeared in a 2015 issue of the magazine. Packer’s story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” was published in 2003.
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month, we're going to hear who will greet you at home by Leslie and published in the New Yorker in October of 2015.
Her mother had formed her from mud and twigs and wrapped her limbs tightly with leaves like moin moin, pedestrian items that had produced a pedestrian girl.
O Getchi was determined that her child would be a thing of whimsy, soft and pretty and tender and worthy of love.
The story was chosen by Zizi Packer, whose story collection, drinking coffee elsewhere, was published in 2003.
Hi, Zizi.
Hi, Debra.
Welcome.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's great to be back.
So how did you first come across this story?
Who will greet you at home?
Did you read it in the magazine when it came out?
Yeah, I did.
I read it in the magazine.
I couldn't kind of believe the story.