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Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

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

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The Imagination of a New Dad

The train passed villages with steepled churches, flower farms and rivers and canals alongside which syclists rolled a stow in a movie. Sometimes Rosalie allowed herself to imagine a passenger on the train that had cleaved her and danced life into before and after. Imagination might be one of the most overrated, or at least overused words.imagined scenarios are no more than the litmus test of the Imagineer's life.

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