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Raviv and Avi, and—my favorite—a Russian Jew named Grisha. ( ‘Russian Jew’ contradiction in terms, he explained, in a lavish plume of menthol smoke. To Russian mind anyway. Since ‘Jew’ to antisemite mind is not the same as true Russian—Russia is notorious of this fact.) Grisha had been born in Sevastopol, which he claimed to remember (black water,

Donna Tartt

Raviv and Avi, and—my favorite—a Russian Jew named Grisha. ( ‘Russian Jew’ contradiction in terms, he explained, in a lavish plume of menthol smoke. To Russian mind anyway. Since ‘Jew’ to antisemite mind is not the same as true Russian—Russia is notorious of this fact.) Grisha had been born in Sevastopol, which he claimed to remember (black water,

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