Big Read: A stranger in a strange land

17 June 2016 - 09:30
By Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Just because I can pick up a teacup doesn't mean I won't pour it over myself and then pee on the GPSPostcards from America:1. I nudge Jacques and he nudges me and we stare at the hand grenades. I've never seen one in real life before but there are three on a glass shelf beside the AA batteries and the novelty corkscrews in Walton's Hardware in Cape Charles, Virginia, next door to the Brown Dog Ice Cream Parlour.

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