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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Unforgiving Face of Tanya

Tanya and I didn't play together anymore. We avoided each other at school. Tanya said that her father had got back in touch about two years earlier. Ten years later, when my husband and I immigrated to the U.S., I tried to look her up but couldn't find her. Then, all of a sudden, she sent me a message on Facebook saying: Aren't you Katia Vee from my old school?

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