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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”

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

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The Skin Heads

She asked why he had to make it so obvious to her friends. He claimed not to understand them, the skin heads,. The ones who did the violence. She couldn't believe how little he seemed to understand skin heads. And then she saw what he was doing, getting her to give him information about this 'Tommy' Rolneck let her take it all in for a minute. Perhaps he ought to let tommy drop her off. Someone should see her to her door. You could come and meet the boys, tommy said. No, no, tommy, she wouldn't like that. Maybe rollneck said they should play a gameif she agreed to work for him

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