#590 Geese- ZZ Packer
Dina is young and wants to get out of Baltimore. “Back home, money was the ony excuse for leaving.” Well, she didn’t have a plan for money, in fact she had no plan at all. However, with nothing but the adventure of youth, she went all the way to Japan. She found temporary work at an American themed amusement park. She didnt make much money but she made a friend, Ari.
After that job finished, she couldn’t find any work, and Ari allowed her to move into his small apartment while she looked. Over the next several month the apartment filled with other foreigners needing help. Ari seemed to collect lost causes. It was like the island of misfit toys. There was an ex model with a damaged face, a broken down Hungarian body builder, and a Moroccan man that fled his family after marrying the wrong woman, a woman who has now left him.
Together they were jobless, moneyless and starving. They became indigent, and the epitome of everything that the locals resented about foreigners. Forced by fear, shame, and need, Dina turns to the thing she didn’t want to resort to. But at least it isn’t Baltimore?
Notable Passage: “There were two types of hunger—one in which you would do anything for food, the other in which you could not bring yourself to complete the smallest task for it.”
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