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The New Yorker: Fiction cover image

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Are You Telling the Truth or Are You Embellishing for Dramatic Effect?

Lily asks the narrator if she's going to make money from her writing. "I don't blame Lily for that at all," he says. The writer turns Lily's oral story into a written story, and it becomes an art form. Lerman: You do wonder whether Lily is telling the truth or embellishing for dramatic effect.

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