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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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You Don't Authentically Represent Us, You Know?

She bends over backwards to find excuses for what people say that's insulting, potentially insulting to Chinese people. She spends so much time trying to sort of excuse these not necessarily racist, but insensitive remarks. And then at the end, I feel that's the first time she stands up for herself when she says I'm Chinese. There's almost several layers of existence here. The way the very luscious description of food, the way the multi-course meal is prepared was masterfully done too.

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