The Arrangement’ – Trump, Melania & More – Read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Story for the New York Times
The New York Times Book Review asked the acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to write a short story about the American election. It is definitely a compelling read.
Her short story titled ‘The Arrangements‘ is a fictional take on Republican Candidate Donald Trump‘s family, life and campaign leading up to the elections with a heavy focus on his wife Melania.
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Melania decided she would order the
flowers herself. Donald was too busy now anyway to call Alessandra’s as
usual and ask for “something amazing.” Once, in the early years, before
she fully understood him, she had asked what his favorite flowers were.
“I use the best florists in the city,
they’re terrific,” he replied, and she realized that taste, for him, was
something to be determined by somebody else, and then flaunted.
At first, she wished he would not keep
asking their guests, “How do you like these great flowers?” and that he
would not be so nakedly in need of their praise, but now she felt a
small tug of annoyance if a guest did not gush as Donald expected. The
florists were indeed good, their peonies delicate as tissue, even if a
little boring, and the interior decorators Donald had brought in — all
the top guys used them, he said — were good, too, even if all that gold
yellowness bordered on staleness, and so she did not disagree because
Donald disliked dissent, and he only wanted the best for them, and she
had what she really needed, this luxurious peace. But today, she would
order herself. It was her dinner party to celebrate her parents’
anniversary. Unusual orchids, maybe. Her mother loved uncommon things.
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