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

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 Bona Fide Marriage

While they were in Korea, she started a social media account on which she posted a daily picture and captioned it with an itemized list of how much they spent that day. The husband came from enough family wealth not to have needed the job he was laid off from in the first place; after marriage did she need to work. My father liked, as I did, tangible and quantifiable markers of success.

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