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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Movie's Not Even Playing Anymore

I was waiting for the film to grant these characters some kind of absolution. Or maybe it does for a time, but that's it. Do they need absolution? They may not need it, but who doesn't want it? Right, and the movie's not even playing anymore. Yeah. It's a sort of residual. But I feel like what you said at the very beginning that you maybe chose the story because you don't understand it. As soon as you sort of feel your grasping logic of what's driving the narrator, or you know what the story is circling around, it slips away and becomes something different.

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