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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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I Think the Element of the Story Is Very Difficult to Read.

I think what makes the story so interesting is that it isn't like a very sort of polarised situation. And in some of the other stories, I've felt quite sort of sympathetic towards him really. But when someone kind of plays the wounded one, and it's obviously something that she's continuing from her relationship with her mother, but that can really put you off a person because it's not really that nice. So I think that's something in their relationship that they've obviously not been able to address or overcome.

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