Arnon Grunberg

Like New York

Liquor

Back in NYC. Miami International Airport was still a ghost town, but JFK was slightly less ghostly than in April.
I ate early, the guy at China Café who usually doesn’t say a word mumbled: “Stay safe.” The restaurant was covered with wooden barricades with a few signs on it: “We’re open.” Just like the liquor store on Lex and 37th.
On Twitter, Cliff Levy, editor at NYT, summarized an article by his colleagues Michael Wilson and Sandra E. Garcia like this: “Deeply moving look at how the protests have made New York feel like New York again.” Even though this is my first curfew in NYC– my first curfew ever was in Savannah a few days ago, even in Baghdad or Kabul I never experienced a curfew – I wholeheartedly agree.
Hopefully something will change as well. A protest should be slightly more effective than a prayer. Or maybe not.

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