
Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Documents showed that she had been an informer. She'd sent people to prison. Her neighbours began to spit on the ground when she walked past, and let their dogs do their business outside her door. One day a teacher told her that someone like her had no business near children. The texture of her reality was soft, spongy. She couldn't trust that anything would take her weight. Sometimes it was as if he were still with her.
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