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| | The Believer - Jess Row's THE TRAIN TO LO WU |
 | | The Believer - Jess Row's THE TRAIN TO LO WU The Train to Lo Wu |
 | | In the first story here, a young American teaching in Hong Kong describes his letters home as “factual and sparse.” And it’s a good description of the writing in Jess Row’s The Train to Lo Wu, a collection inspired by his own experience teaching in Hong Kong. |
 | | But if the prose is pragmatic, the stories themselves operate as intuitive, emotional, and in some cases, romantic responses to one of the most unusual places on earth. |
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