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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Battle for the Father Doll

Katya and Tonya fight over a father doll in the book. The two girls are also competing over maps, which is a recurring theme of the story. "I find children change a lot over the summers just because there's just so much time," says author Toni Morrison.

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