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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Immigrant Experience

The story is about Russian immigrants, not immigrants from China. I did feel a certain kinship about that experience, very familiar terrain. It was eerie when I read it because I understood so much about the interior of the protagonist and that relationship. The first half is mostly set in a foreign country with girls who are just like girls in any country. Somehow we end up in a different place by the end of the story.

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