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Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”

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

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The True Acknowledgement of a Spread Sheet

Lu thought of herself as reliable a team player, but others mistook her for a natural subordinate. She didn't register the misconception until it was too late. Lue did not feel obligated to socialize with them on friday nights any more without husbands knowing the evenings could be put to better uses. The rest of the group was, as lou's daughter would say, tight. Others came and went, but the corps group held. It was their way of belonging wherever they went.

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