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Stanford

This is an elite university in California. The narrator graduated from this school. This place symbolizes the beginning of the narrator's relationship with the woman who becomes her partner in a counterfeit designer handbag scheme, as they were roommates as freshmen there.

China

This is a country in east Asia. This place features heavily in the novel, as several characters travel to this location throughout. This place symbolizes the complicated relationship both the narrator and her boss have to this country and culture, as well as the lengths they are willing to go to uphold their business.

Counterfeit Designer Purses

These objects feature heavily in the novel. The narrator and her boss run a business making and returning these objects to department stores and designer boutiques in order to sell the real versions on eBay. These objects symbolize their unique bond and the thrill running this business...

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