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Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Importance of Ingenuity

Tanya's dolls lived in a shoebox, too. Only her Shoebox was white and stood perched on the edge of a large dresser. The dolls didn't have a lot of furniture, but they had a plastic airplane placed on a little shelf by the box. Where are they now? I asked. Arabella is a way on a business trip, but I can show you Emeranta and Sigurd. She looked a lot like my mother doll, but bigger and less bold.

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