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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Katya and Tanya: A Story About Dolls

When they first meet, it's a scene of hydrana. And Katya is drawn to Tanya by the fact that she makes this incredible scene and sends her mother scurrying. I've never seen little girls fight in a story physically. It's funny because there's a conflict in the middle of the story sort of,. and then... It's not that the tension dissipates, but we move on.

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