Ivory Coast = France = Japan, in language habits at lea

Full story: Atlantic Monthly

In this scene from Dan Chaon's very bleak but memorable unreliable-narrator / mistaken-identity novel Await Your Reply , a young American woman named Lucy goes into a hair salon in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The country is French speaking, and Lucy is apprehensive about communicating.

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