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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's the Difference Between Susan and Vladimir?

A lot of East Asian immigrants, including my life, got very traditional American names. Hernan: It kind of puts her parents right in the position of naming her this as a way of putting their foot forward. And keeping them as the man and the woman is playing with the idea that they're types or stereotypes.

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