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Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

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

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A Book Without Pictures or Conversations

Rossley and Dan had learned that a shared pain was simply that, a permanent presence of a permanent absence in both their lives. There was no shared cure, not even a shared alleviation. Marcy would have said, what's the use of this skimming on life's surface as though that would do the trick? How do you know it won't work? She then realised that once again she was back at the same argument, the one that Marcy had already and definitively won. Alice asks sensibly before going down the rabbit hole. What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? For a week, Rossley took photographs of canals and windmills, of

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