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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

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

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The Virgin Mother in Scenes of the Annunciation

The author slept with a man in Greece but decided not to tell him about the pregnancy. She says she had no intention of telling her partner and spent evenings reading at home. The writer was asked if she belonged to either the American or Greek school of thought by an admirer who bought her a beer.

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