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The narrator of this story spends his days escorting airline passengers in wheelchairs through an airport terminal, bearing witness to their outbursts, confessions, and unexpected tenderness. At home, he has a brother who is unable, or unwilling, to leave the routines that have kept them both afloat since their parents’ deaths. And, in hotel rooms, between shifts, he carries on an unofficial, tender relationship with JT, a flight attendant. When JT accepts a temporary post in Taiwan and offers the narrator an open invitation—a voucher, some dates, no promises—the narrator must make a choice. Full of overheard griefs and unlikely kindnesses, the story asks what it takes for someone so practiced at accompanying others to move under his own power.
— Willing Davidson, senior editor
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