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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads William Trevor

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Silly Girl and No Way You're Not

Marietta Lethwes has been a childless wife since she was 36 years old. She had turned away from talk of adoption because she didn't feel like taking on other people's kids. A letter arrived at the hotel St. George that changed everything. Marietta sat for an hour on the terrace of the hotel, working it out. The next thing is he'll be putting it gently to her, that nothing is as it should be. He doesn't know she knows and hopes that nothing ever shows.

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