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Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Are the Rose Coloured Glasses Coming Off?

In a way, i must read this as three sisters whose mother has died. And and then, yes, is their bond going to survive? Yes. Selina was a little older, and she was the mother figure that they wanted crowding around them when they were sick or were in danger. She wore rose coloured glasses even more than faith. Can they really face yet a reality as anne presents it, which is probably the closer to the truth right? That's a tough question for all of us I think.

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