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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

I Never Did This With You Because You're a Girl

There are only two moments in the story where she expresses happiness at something he does or, you know, attraction in that way. One is when she sees him leaning over the counter and she says he's like a little boy waiting for a treat from his mother. The other is when he tells her she's smarter than him. So these are moments when she gets to feel superior, I suppose.

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