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Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

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The Marriage of Margaret and Ali

Allie met Ali for dinner, holding two opposing thoughts. He was a cad or worse, and he loved her absolutely. Next time you're at the library, he said, find an atlas and pick the town where we'll live. Her older brother Milton wrote that their father had cancer. Wouldn't she come home, Milton asked? If she wasn't making money, she ought to come home.

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