Have I told you that I love it in books when characters mishear each other? It’s one of my favorite things because it happens in life all the time and in books almost never. Here is a misheard conversation from somewhere in the middle of Make Your Home Among Strangers: I was just about to hang up on him when he asked, So you hear yet? –Omar, I told you I’ve been here, but I’m leaving. –No, I mean the thing at school. The investigation thing. What happened? –Oh that. Misunderstanding is central to this book about a first-generation college…
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