‘You were the first one to let me down. You imprinted me with some kind of habit for being betrayed.”
This meltdown of an advertising executive comes at the end of “I Called You by Name,” one of 11 stories in Yukiko Motoya’s much-anticipated new book “The Lonesome Bodybuilder.”
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