Deborah Treisman

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982 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The New Yorker: Fiction · Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

We don't have a sense of that kind of shared history with the husband.

Exactly.

On a hot, sticky night.

And I'm looking now just at the last line of the story, which is very complicated.

Well, the last few lines, you know, so she sees Roy again, and it hurts just to look at him.

And is that hurt disillusionment?

Is that hurt because she still feels desire?

Is that hurt about the fact that he never did come down when she was sleeping on the couch?

It's almost like he's a bright light and she can't keep her eyes open.

Yeah.

And then the last line, I still might've gone, but then I remembered that I was married now and that married people are happy.

How are you doing narrator?

And maybe she is really happy.

It's possible.

Yeah, totally.

But I think she's repeating this kind of misconception that she's had all along, that because Roy and Mandy are married, they are happy.

And that's why their breakup is so disorienting for her, because she's had this very rigid definition of them in her mind.

And maybe they're bland, and maybe Mandy just wants to be good at having a body or whatever else.

But they are for her...

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