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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is It a Disapproval of the People in Her Life?

We're given a kind of straightforward, possible reason for her to have anguish. We never really get her feelings about that, but it may be partly why she's there alone and no one's really communicating with her. I think the fact that she's doing this and getting married means that her desire to do it has outweighed all the rest. Right? And then the story ends with what seems to me to be a kind of roaring confirmation of her feelings for this man. Hoily grei toll is loud and rosame time. It's that roar that becomes so quiet, and the k quiet that becomes so loud. Ya, ya.

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