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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”

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

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A Girl's Life Story

Monica went to live in a tenement that had been declared unfit for habitation. She met two girls from art school who spent their days making things as if it were a job. They weren't ashamed of being different and laughed at the idea they could ever end up as net curtain twitches, disgusting baby factories,. doing the ironing while some man drank himself stupid in front of the t v. When she told them she couldn't play drums one said 'it doesn't matter' And just like that, a third option opened up.

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