The Friend
Joakim Zander, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel
"Some things happen so fast."
"Agnes Thelin almost looked apologetic when she explained I was a suspect."
"Murdered? I snatched the newspaper from Hetty’s hands and spread it on my lap."
"Southerners will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill of the dead, no matter how much they hated a person’s guts while they were alive."
"As Crys walked, all she could see were surreal shapes of trees and bushes and white images of impala and other animals that she couldn’t identify."
"As the sun rises, I walk across the street toward the second row home on the block, five up from where Lauren Branch lives with her two roommates."
"'You’re not going to let him get away with that, are you?' asks Beth, aghast."