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He shook his head, throwingI just remembered the name when I saw you at the Krampuslauf We don’t have names, not like you do Isidore and Griselda have been called ain Names, they just don’t stick to us But I like Joachiine a nah not quite attached It felt wrong, like losing one’s shadow I’d always been Hanna, and I couldn’t i?"

"The Kra people without any disguise It’s a great prank, don’t you think?"

"Oh, yeah Absolutely" I took a swig from my cup It tasted like someone had melted those cinnaht it I wondered why I’d decided to drink it and then took another swig

"I owe you a gift," he said, into the silence "Griselda brought so Now it’s ive you its pale approxi Roth into a donkey ay h"

"My people are often beseeched for favors, but seldom invited to share in feasts," he spoke with a sly hu forift for beingback at the trailer Faintaround They’d gotten a second wind Soon sos of the after-after-party Soon after that, I’d collapse in Grand with asand for all I knew, Joachiht, like dew burned up in the sun "Okay What I want is to never forget there’s et to keep the over, he lass ashtray and pressed his lips to rass

"I proh I was, admittedly, not even a little bit sober, that was the ic was real, since I conjured up Joachi him to happen, since I’d made this party out of two hundred bucks and sheer deterht I couldn’t have, that weren’t for s Maybe it was all for me, if I wanted it

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exerther freshman year at the University of Bumfuckville, Sophie had counted at least a dozen What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? moments The first hen Sophie’s mother dropped her off at the dor pro when Sophie understood that the idea of a college in the country, in the middle of the country--pastoral was how’d she’d been describing it to friends back in Brooklyn--wasn’t so n, as if she’d decided to enroll at the University of Beirut Attendant sinking feelings in the stomach soon followed the revelation that really shouldn’t have been a revelation--it was so obvious It had been obvious to all her friends, ere perplexed by her choice to go here, and to her mother, asn’t

As she and her mother hauled her suitcases into the dors show It would only uilty The University of Bu pastoral wasn’t the real reason Sophie had enrolled

The second What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? moment had coirls, pretty girls, welcoether--beer and pizza with crusts thick as the length of Sophie’s thu at least a half dozen times, a trend that continued well into the term until Sophie finally realized that sarcasm was like a separate dialect, one not universally understood "You’re so big city," one of the Kaitlynns (there were three on her hall) would say Sophie was never quite sure if this was an insult

Sophie had iined she would be thecity, after all--but it was the girls fro to college here all their lives, whose parents had gone here, ere inscrutable

The guys were no better Strapping and big-toothed specimens, with nauy had asked Sophie out on what she’d thought was a date, but what had turned out to be a group outing to play ultirouchy about it, but then to her surprise had gotten into the gaainst the other team On the walk back to the dorms, Kyle/Connor had said, "You’re really competitive, aren’t you?" Sophie had no doubt as to whether that was an insult

That was What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? moment number four--or maybe it was five There’d been several with the boys here She was starting to lose count She’d long since lost hope

She had no one to blaht’s What the Hell Have You Done o and ht prices back to New York halved if Sophie left the folloeek, so she had to stick around and twiddle thu her books back to the bookstore--getting a pittance in return, because two editions were about to be updated, the clerk explained, causing Sophie to get into an arguital and updated autou to do with the debate On the way out she’d seen a flier for caroling on the quad that night And for soood idea

Sophie wondered as she going to learn that lots of things seeht uncover that such seeood ideas are, in fact, intrinsically faulty Take cooes hungry Butfor it to work you’d need an inhuman capacity for cooperation, or a much more human capacity for totalitarianised phones and Siberian gulags enough to knohich way that went