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Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

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The Duped Woman

Marguerite began inviting her to sit down for tea, which she wasn't supposed to do. They talked about her boyfriend and Stalin's stroke and Richard Burton's chin. One day Marguerite casually asked, the woman he put up before me was she this much trouble? The maid said so much more. Of course, she was trouble for him, too. That's why he had to get her out of New York. She didn't need to believe in him, but she needed to believe in herself as singular.

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