This is The Writer's Voice, New Fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treasman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Anne Enright read her story Solstice

from the March 13th, 2017 issue of the magazine.

Anne Wright has published three short story collections and six novels,

including The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007,

and the Green Road, which came out in 2015.

That year, she was appointed Ireland's first fiction laureate.

Now here's Anne Enright. Salstice. It was the

years turning. These few hours like the blink of a great eye. Just enough light to check that the

world is still there before shutting back down.

Sometime in the mid-afternoon he had an impulse to go home or go somewhere

and when he lifted his head, of course, it was dark outside.

It just felt wrong.

Two hours later he was in the multi-story looking for his car

and he couldn't find the thing.

It was like a lost dog.

He clicked the key fob over and over,

but there were no answering lights flashing orange on level two

where he usually parked or on level three.

He went up the little stairs to level four,

then along the tiny path on the side of the ramp

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