Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.
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MY BOOK BEGINNING
The notice informed then that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M.
-- from "A Temporary Matter," the first story in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahir.
This is one of the books I am reading for my 2013 TBR challenges. It won the Pulitzer Prize for 1999, but I haven't gotten around to it before this.