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Samantha Hunt Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Absence of Men and the Quest for an Ordinary Fate

Exploring the theme of male absence in the story and the protagonist's complex emotions towards her husband's death, as well as her reflections on the role of men in her life.

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