J. B Laks Electronics and Elektronics employed bodiless immigrants by the hundreds every month. The turnover rate was sky-high. Saki realized why after his second shift: not everyone was built for this job. Moonies would call to report problems in their appliances—a coughing laundry box or...
Once, many days ago, one of the small girls had run over in her blue school frock, carrying a bowl of bread soaked in milk. He remembered the taste of the cream on the bread, its chewiness, the way it felt in his mouth. She was the one who had started calling him Sheru. There...