Ling Ma admits she picked Seeing Ershadi because it feels like an unsolvable riddle that captures supernatural artistic intervention.
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A quiet, demanding Fiction episode about art's timing, a father's decline, and the strange labor of staying close.
Ling Ma chooses Nicole Krauss's "Seeing Ershadi" because it still resists her: mysterious, riddling, alive to the way a work of art can arrive at the right moment and feel almost supernatural.
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