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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Importance of Rest

"My own summer was uneventful, because I refused to go to camp," she says. "I mostly stayed in our sweltering apartment, complaining that I was bored." But then my uncle came back from Bulgaria and brought me the father doll. She spent the first week just playing with him all day long.

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