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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 Impossible Situations of Learning a Language

The family had set a curfew, which she had already broken twice. The school had letter to believe that she would be more like a tutor paired with small groups. Some days, 30 kids showed up to her classroom and each child wanted to be read to but no two could agree on the same book. When parents complained that pick up, she couldn't follow any of their Spanish. On top of that, her best guy friend from college was meant to visit this weekend, but had canceled at the last minute after having contracted the virus.

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