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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Pathos of Freedom

"I honestly didn't know whether we were rich or not. Tanya seemed to like my dolls." "We named it Katanya, a combination of our names, Katya, and Kachia,. And decided that it should have only two inhabited places," she says. The next step was to create a map. We painted the road from Katuski to T-City, the usual brown color of roads. It meander through the green woods, as far as the ocean, and returned to a bridge across the river. To make an even more dramatic end: A wavy strip of foil wrapped in chocolate is glued to the top of the map.

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