“The Arrangements” – opowiadanie o wyborach w Stanach

Pisarka Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie napisała dla The New Tork Times subtelne opowiadanie (zamówione pod hasłem about the American election), od którego nie mogłam się oderwać.

Melania decided she would order the flowers herself. Donald was too busy now anyway to call Alessandra’s as usual and ask for “something amazing.” Once, in the early years, before she fully understood him, she had asked what his favorite flowers were.

“I use the best florists in the city, they’re terrific,” he replied, and she realized that taste, for him, was something to be determined by somebody else, and then flaunted.

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