Weike Wang Reads “The Trip”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Nov 12, 2019

Weike Wang reads her story from the November 18, 2019, issue of the magazine. Wang’s first novel, “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was published in 2017, and she was named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 the same year. 

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