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r207tm7454f	Naima Msechu	Infestations: A Tetraptych & Other Stories	2022		.txt	text/plain	268	9	35	Characters do their best to cope with this onslaught, alternately embracing and fending it off with such coping mechanisms as befriending cockroaches, projecting whale sounds through a rainwater pipe, archiving scenes from a failed relationship, and metaphorically detonating earrings shaped like grenades—in short, these characters craft personal ideologies even as they are influenced, as all people are, by larger, societal ones. Infestations are closely tied to obsessions, which involve repetition; just as these stories prowl the same thematic territory in different ways, their individual narratives contain echoes, reiterations, copies good and bad.	cache/r207tm7454f.txt	txt/r207tm7454f.txt