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On The Decline of The Furniture Industry in Grand Rapids
- Minnesota Review
- Duke University Press
- Number 20, Spring 1983 (New Series)
- p. 24
- Article
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24 the minnesota review MARC J. SHEEHAN On The Decline of The Furniture Industry in Grand Rapids Here men with the dust of lathed wood in their lungs sent pregnant and unwed daughters on improbably long stays with distant relatives and listened at night to the silence; in autumn the earth's breath pushing a few dry leaves beneath the eaves. Now, in second-hand stores, are plywood vanities, veneer chipped, silver of mirrors flaking — the immigrant wives who posed before them smearing on lipstick in secret, dead. ...
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