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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is This Meant to Be a Symbolic Story Telling?

It's almost like an emotion that then created a story. Some kind of injury, pain, fear, you acts like a primal fear seeing this thing he wasn't supposed to see and for something that he must injest. Each time i read it, i feel it differently. Sometimes i'm just standing back and kind of like horrified, and sometimes i'm sort of pulled into his psyche and feel those things. But i know that these are almost images that are universal. An ino sensetey, they do have that fairy tale like feel. And it's frightening, yes, but you have no choice but to eat what comes out of it. The fairy tail parties also like no

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