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Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

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

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The Importance of Congruity

The institution of family meant a lot to Matt to look like a family. He had a very idealized sense of justice. But I also understood his desire for Congruity. Not far from the 24-hour gas station was a school, a park, and a 24-hour cemetery. As I looped around the cemetery I thought about death and rebirth. We don't all have to match, I used to tell him, we're not a suit of cards.

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