Tapka
Short story about a boy who inadvertently allows a dog in his care to be run over.... My parents, Soviet refugees, but Baltic aristocrats took an apartment…
"Goldfinch was flapping clotheslines, a tenement delirious with striving. 6030 Bathurst: insomniac, scheming Odessa. Cedarcroft: reeking borscht in the hallways." — Soviet refugees find Toronto