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

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

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

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A Novel That's Not Yet Complete

A family, tourists judging by their appearance as Rossley herself was, materialized in every platform along with Rossley. She found a uniformed railway worker and asked about the cancelled trains. There was an incident near Rotterdam this morning, he said. Was it an accident? Ah yes, the kind of sad accident that happens sometimes. The dead should be left in peace. A novel would not get better if the characters spend all their time wandering between platforms. What Rossley needed was not a plot twist or a dramatic scene, but reliable information.

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