Sarah Braunstein Reads “Superstition”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Aug 3, 2021

Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Superstition,” from the August 9, 2021, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of the novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” which won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Fiction and a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award. 

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