
Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa
The New Yorker: Fiction
What's the Story About?
There is no recapitulation of the memory in this story, but there's memory but, ye, no telling of it. The narrative momentum of the story is almost deeper, an deeper stillnesses, like a pool. All the water and transparency imageis sort of everything's roiled together in this very strange way that gets more and more intricate,. but hard to name yetim follow the water trail through the story, through the caftriat dish line.
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