He digs now because of el primer libro, that first book, found long ago. When José first began work as a garbage collector, he spotted a thick novel in the trash— Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. He dug it out and read it again and again, always opening to a faraway time and place full of steam trains, ballrooms lit by candlelight, sleighs gliding through snow. He found other books and read those, too. Each was different, each its own world to discover.
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