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Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

The New Yorker: Fiction

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I'm Just a Hot Mess

The chef finally tells the story of why he was fired. He says his boss asked something completely unreasonable of him and he refused to do it. The manager was Chinese. So what happens with her? It's this roller coaster. And she does this so well in the story because there's a roller coaster with everything.

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