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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is That Why the Boy Is There?

In this they feel like twins, in a sense, all without famly. All seeming to be untethered from the stable things. The pool situation seems to me more standard. It doesn't feel like a fairy tale. I've been the kid who couldn't swimid didn't like being in the wateell. That one feels closer to reality. And then we get the tay where he runs away, meets his drunk grandfather in the street and is taken to the factory and told to smell some rusty machine in a junk pile,. So what happens there? You know, i thought abeca says that the grandfather was a skilled tailor, and there's a moment when the husband

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