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November 12th, 2009

The Glass Eye

The night my father lost his left eye to a rare disease, my parents and I were playing a game we called The Memory Game. The goal was to find among sixty-eight cards in all two that matched. …more

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Jeannie Vanasco is a regular contributor to The New Yorker's Book Bench. Her writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere.

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