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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is That Family Walls a Funny One?

Family walls is a funny one, isn't it? You don't actually even get the family in this. They have a son, but he doesn't appear here. It's almost like a title of an Italian Ginsburg story or something. I just find it fascinating to think about Brennan's relationship to family and walls and marriage and homes. There's so much pressure, particularly women, I suppose, feel. But at the same time, it doesn't really mean anything. Well, thank you so much, Chloe-Wise.

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