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Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Tong Suu's Forgiveness

Tong Suu's uncle survived the war only for it to take him later when it was all over. The stranger said he was tired from the long walk and from years of looking for his uncle. He asked if Tong Suu would be hospitable enough to offer him some water. I was sorry to hear about your wife the man said. A pig passing over the bones of another one isn't that something? That was reconstruction back then. You were displaced but safe. Maybe not from one another and you're petty greed and insignificant dramas but from the greater madness.

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