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

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

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The Importance of Being Cinderella

Margaret asked if they could send the child to Trinity School, but Ali looked aghast. Instead, he hired a tutor, a hapless boy who'd been kicked out of Andover and was spending the year with his parents. Eugene lasted six months at the Stichney Inn, before he was fired for mistaking the bag room for the restroom and urinating on a hatbox. This she learned from Mr. Giddings, who sent a letter to apologize for letting Eugene go. He needs a caretaker, he wrote,. She imagined him reading the words aloud to his wife, asking if they sounded tactful. Even if Ali let her, she could not return to

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