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

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

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

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Rossley and Marionne Moore's Marriage

Rossley would never allow herself to imagine a girl who looked any different from the one she had dropped off at the school gate on that final fatal morning. The woman across the aisle gave Rossley a look, quizzical, if not entirely unfriendly. She must have been staring at the woman's body. What kind of mother would scrutinize a daughter's body with a collector's interest? Marionne Moore's mother,. it turned out, or at least, Rossley could not shake off that impression after reading Moore's biography. Instead of wrapping herself in a bathrobe, Rossley had carried every single piece of her closing into the bathroom and made herself as unavailable and unassailable

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