Because I haven't been reading from this book day
after day yet, my schtick isn't all here for it.
Which means I maybe haven't told you some things
I should tell you.
Thank you very much, Hannah.
I told you I was loud.
[LAUGHTER]
As you probably heard in that excerpt,
Kelly sometimes calls the part of the city
he works in "the zone."
Which is sort of an allusion to the exclusion
zone around Chernobyl in Pripyat, in Ukraine.
And the only thing you really have
to know for the part I'm going to read
is there will be this part where he wonders how he got to here.
And he references a fire that he was involved in when he first
moved to the city.
He was scrapping with a group of other people,
and there was a fire in a building they were working in.
And everyone else died, and he survived.
And he also references a woman that he calls the girl
with the limp, who's a woman named Jackie that he's
romantically involved with.
Throughout the book he rarely uses people with proper names,
he has a thing with naming.
And he calls people by these sort of phrasal nouns.
So that's all you need to know to hear, like,
three sentences later.
Everything else will be fine, I think.
Thank you so much.