Master Patrick Dignam carries the meat home

Today's passage · lines 10.741–860

The 2-minute recap

Paddy Dignam's young son, freshly fatherless, walks home with a parcel of pork steaks for the family dinner, his mind wandering between grief, boredom, and the ordinary business of being a boy. …

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