Tessa Saipan Kaner reads from Chapter 73 “About Esther Longtree” of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. Saipan Kaner was a novelist, actress, and one of the first to read for this series.

The waitress, Esther Longtree, was perpetually pregnant– and not from the same partner. Indeed, her many mates were as eccentric as her private habituation. Joe Goldberg was among them. This chapter follows his obsession with Esther and the night that they shared in a graveyard. The burial yard foreshadows Esther’s many miscarriages and Goldberg’s impending death.

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