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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Color Red in a Painting - It's Hard to Define

The color red keeps appearing in different forms, like leaking from the the swimming cap into the boy's hair. There's a kind of harmonic i think that's why it becomes wordless. Everything is sort of gray and watery and rainy, and they rait undifined,. And she also focuses on where things separate from other things, like where a droplet of rain comes off the fog.

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