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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

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

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Is Joy an Ethical Obligation?

The author's father is an anabaptist, but she says the sect doesn't make sense anymore. The diagnosis has altered his personality in no perceptible way, he writes. "Joy is the proper response to the gift of life that God or something has bestowed upon all of us"

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