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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Is There a Sweetness Out There?

The story sends the narrator running back home to read her telegrm. She says she's going to read it again and again until the words melt away, just like chocolate. Do you think that's the meaning? I thnk. Because she turns those words into a thing that's like a solid thing that you could touch and hold.

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