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Andrea Lee Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What Is It Like to Be a Girl?

"There's something very particular about her. In some ways she's quite ordinary, a parttime model," he says of the young woman who catches his interest at a wedding. "She doesn't honestly care about the things that most of the world cares about... And so she is this pure spirit in a certain way."

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