We Need New Names: A Novel

we’ve seen Asian, which was respectful; we’ve seen big tits and blond and blow job; we’ve seen bondage, which was creepy; we’ve seen creampie and cumshot, which were both nasty; we’ve seen double penetration, which was scary; we’ve seen ebony, which made us embarrassed;

so I don’t even know what they are doing on TV; I look at them walking on the runway and think, If you were born in my country you’d just be ordinary, your runway would be the border, where you’d just be selling things like my mother

singing and shuffling and swaying

b. She sings it wrong because she doesn’t know all the English words because she doesn’t speak the right English because she didn’t go to school, but I don’t correct her since you can’t tell an adult nothing.

Messenger likes to smile, like life is just too pretty, like everything is grea

he calls everybody my son or my daughter; I think that’s because she cannot remember all the names

I start to raise my hand to my lips to shut him up and Mother of Bones says, without even turning around, Leave those little heathens alone you hear me

COMPETITION AT WORK, DEAD PEOPLE TERRORIZING YOU, BAD LUCK WITH GETTING VISAS ESPECIALLY TO USA AND BRITAIN, NONSENSEFUL PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE, THINGS DISAPPEARING IN YOUR HOUSE ETC. ETC. ETC. PLEASE PAYMENT IN FOREX ONLY

ying the shacks;

Money is money no matter what this is still money, she says.