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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Awakening the Nightmare in Kyoto

The film's final take is a positive one because she's saying all of these life-changing things were actually our own doing, and not the work of a mystical figure in a movie or a man that we met. I believe both versions. They drew power and energy from the film and from seeing Roshati, and I believe that they also summoned it from themselves too. And when it comes to being swept up in something or swept away by something, that's exactly what the narrator is looking for in the beginning. But then in Kyoto, she gets swept up insomething very much against her will.

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