ZZ Packer Reads Lesley Nneka Arimah

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:08.0	I'm Debra Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:11.0	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
0:16.0	This month we're going to hear Who Will Greet You at Home by Leslie Inyeka Arima,
0:21.0	which was published in the New Yorker in October of 2015.
0:25.0	Her mother had formed her from mud and twigs and wrapped her limbs tightly with leaves like mowing mowing,
0:32.0	pedestrian items that had produced a pedestrian girl.
0:37.0	Ogette was determined that her child would be a thing of whimsy, soft and pretty and tender and worthy of love.
0:45.0	The story was chosen by Zizi Packer, whose story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was published in 2003.
0:53.0	Hi Zizi.
0:54.0	Hi Debra.
0:55.0	Welcome.
0:56.0	Welcome back.
0:57.0	Thank you.
0:58.0	Thank you.
0:59.0	I'm going to be back.
1:00.0	So how did you first come across this story who will greet you at home?
1:04.0	Did you read it in the magazine when it came out?
1:06.0	Yeah, I did.
1:08.0	I read it in the magazine.
1:09.0	I couldn't kind of believe the story.
1:12.0	I was just so impressed by it.
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