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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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How Does the Story of the Son and His Death Interweave?

The story of the son and his death is not here. We're given the story of Lily's loss and the loss of Tuan, her teenage boyfriend. And it makes so much sense to me with this narrator and this character in particular because the story itself, it begins with an act of deflection.

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