Believers

Charles Baxter
Believers
1997

Charles Baxter writes about magic. And whether it's the magic of connection or the magic of destruction or desperation, the results are still astonishing. From "Reincarnation:"

"We had reached that part of the dinner when all the guests, smoothed out with wine and the meal, the first and second helpings, sit back and speak their minds. 'Hearts,' I would once have said, 'sit back and speak their hearts.' I used to think that this was the basis of civilization, such conversations."

Answers to yesterday's quiz: 1.b, 2.a, 3.c

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