Secrets of the Unread by Sheerly Avni Sep 01,
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to a friend | print Two college students named Julio and Emilia
fall into each other’s arms after a night of partying. They
tumble into Emilia’s tiny twin bed, but not without first
holding a brief, deadly serious conversation: Julio claims to
have read all but the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, and
Emilia counters by insisting that she read the whole novel. “It
was a very important moment in my life as a reader,” she adds,
right before slipping off a faded Ramones T-shirt. Julio takes
her at her word, since he himself has barely made it through the
first chapter.  The deadpan exchange sets the tone for the rest
of Bonsai, which cuts deftly back and forth in time between
their college affair and Julio’s life in Santiago eight years
later. Now an aspiring novelist in an apparently casual
relationship with his neighbor Bianca, Julio applies for a job
typing a novel for a famous author named Gaz