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we're always homesick [. . .]' (Murphy, 1992, p. 55). Another character in Hoffman's
book, who spent a year in New York, confirms the narrator's representation of
Easterners as deeply attached to their origins: `This is what cannot be fathomed from
the outside: the million tendrils that attach us to home ground, even when the ground
is harsh; sometimes, perhaps, especially because it is harsh' (1999, p. 259).
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