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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”

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

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She'd Been There, Don't You?

Monica knew there'd be a reckoning, but she didn't think it would be so quick or so brutal. She thought about throwing the record away, but despite the chity cover, the band was good and if she decided not to keep it, she could swap it for something. So she put it in her bag and took it home. When she got into work the next day, there were three more records in her locker. Her boss told her that he was sorry, but he couldn't keep someone like her around any more. The band was heading out on the road. Ten days of katye singing, better off dead than getting kicked in the head.

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