What a brilliant story. I want to read so much more by this writer. Vapnyar captures the voice of childhood perfectly, seemingly effortlessly, without ever being cloying or condescending. This story captured me early on, when the seven-year-old narrator admires the fit a classmate has thrown about b...
Lara Vapnyar has a fascination with food, although not of the type usually written about and praised. Vapnyar's selection of food resembles her approach to fiction, which is simple, straightforward, and sustaining. Her first collection of short stories ("There are Jews in My House") showed the promi...
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