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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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Antoinette's Snarky, Hairy Rambodon, and a Squat Toilet, Miranda Corrected.

Antoinette wanted to talk about snarkling and tea plantations in the cameron highlands. Lu thought she might take her leave. She had an exam coming up on supply chain management from major projects, which was necessary to keep her certification up to date. The team was smart, but acted otherwise as if this kind of bravado were proof of freedom. They all shot a quick glance at lu, who wasn't tigh or malay, they reminded themselves. But had become implicated.

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