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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Competition Between Tanya and Katya

As a child, you're comparing environments. And then the competition started without Katya really even knowing it. I think that's stayed with Tanya, right, for all of her life. It seems as though the competition between them focuses on these, well, first on money, who has more. They also compete at that moment about relatives who have died,. How did your aunt die? How did your father die? This kind of like, can I want up you with a horrific death story? Right. Then in a way, their sort of competitiveness resettles on the dolls. Mm-hmm. One of the things that I thought was remarkable was that shoebox

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