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Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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'I'm a Friend,' She Said.

Lu was called into the office of her former boss, Sheila. The investigator will likely want to see you this afternoon,. But things could move faster or slower, i understand. You were well friendly with john sadler? Yes, he is every one's friend. Now we've got a mess on our hands. She reached for the door and hesitated, surprised to see it already open. In 75, most of the team had been together for more than a decade. Even when some one is our friend, she said, even when we care about him, or hope he cares about us, we have to act in a principaled way when he does wrong. Lu tilted her head to indicate

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