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We decided that I would be artificially inseminated once I turned thirty-five, and we also started saving to buy a house.
Everything went smoothly. When I reported this to my mother, she said only half-jokingly, "A marriage that goes too smoothly gives me the creeps."
From Vanishing World © 2015 by Sayaka Murata. English translation © 2025 by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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