““I guess I failed to raise you properly.” Rufus sighed heavily as he stared into a troughlike glass of red wine. The way he saw it, you had two choices in this city. Either you spent an arm and a leg to send your kids to private school, where they learned to shop for insanely expensive clothes and to be snobbish to their father, but also to converse in Latin, memorize Keats, and do algorithms in their heads; or, you sent them to public school, where they might not learn to read, might not gradu...ate, and risked getting shot. He’d thought he’d done the right thing. But now it looked like neither of his kids was going to any school of any kind next year. “You didn’t fail, Dad,” Dan corrected as he scarfed down a forkful of sesame noodles. Rufus and Jenny had waited outside Hunan 92 on Ninety-second and Amsterdam while he went in to buy some celebratory takeout. He’d stayed up all night working on his speech, drinking instant coffee after instant coffee and smoking Camel after Camel.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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