
Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Humor About Immigration
The main character is the daughter of Chinese immigrants, and clearly is between worlds. So humor about immigration probably inevitably involves some level of guilt and some level of resentment. I'm a huge fighter for the role of comedy and satire and fiction in my writing classes at Columbia. And this story does it so elegantly, I think.
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