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leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights

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An Absence of Cousins 9780736968331 And as if that wasn’tAbout An Absence of Cousins By Lore Segal In these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door.