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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Pain of a Divorce

"I'd assumed that I'd be too depressed to go anywhere. But when the summer finally started, I found that I felt better," she says. "The idea of being on my own began to excite me." Tanya sent incredibly detailed driving instructions and insisted that he turn off his GPS. She didn't even offer him a glass of water but gave him a bottle of Evian instead.

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