The Visit

Anuk Arudpragasam’s short story, The Visit, appeared in the latest issue of the Paris Review (Issue 252, Summer 2025).

“Navini had expected the visit to involve some kind of conflict or tension, which was what usually happened when they spent time together after a long separation, but the novelty of her mother’s presence in New York⁠—the sheer strangeness of seeing her there in the apartment⁠—seemed to bring about a suspension of their usual patterns, and their first few days together were pleasantly uneventful, peaceful even.”

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