同婚十年：我們靜靜的生活

by 陳雪

從惡女到療癒系人妻
從出櫃到錫婚閃閃
不論疾病、貧窮、痛苦、悲傷
──歲月靜好 攜手相伴──

　　我記得初次見面，她坐在我對面。
　　我想要把手伸得長長地，越過人群，去撫摸她的臉。
　　那是令人害羞的往事，使我高興的是，
　　至今，我對她仍有當時的衝動，
　　至今，她仍會專注地望著我。

　　2011年，小說家陳雪在臉書社群上宣布她與早餐人已經結婚的喜事──她們已於2009年8月在花蓮兩位友人的見證下結婚。

　　十年來，兩人如同多數平凡小夫妻，養貓、做菜、澆花、寫作、讀書等各種柴米油鹽醬醋茶的日常中，找到彼此生活的平衡點。雖然沒有法律保護，仍謹守著婚姻的承諾

　　──無論疾病、貧窮、痛苦、悲傷，無論發生任何事，都守護著對方，陪伴著彼此。要努力到不能夠為止。

　　這是一本時間之書，早餐人曾在婚禮上說：「這是一個開始。」本書是陳雪對生活逐日的紀錄，也是隨著時間推移刻畫下的印記，同婚十年，過程裡有爭吵、磨合、彼此照顧、相互理解的過程，除了彼此對關係的堅持，也記錄下台灣社會爭取同志婚姻合法的過程中，艱難的奮鬥。

　　記得我愛你，無論是流著眼淚或帶著微笑，我們會都會一直走下去的。

256 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2019

About the author

Chen Xue, born 1970, is a key figure in the development of a queer literature in Taiwan.

She graduated from the Chinese Department of National Central University in 1993.

Since 1995, she has produced 10 novels and short story collections. Her 2009 novel The Possessed was nominated for three Taiwanese literary prizes, and her 2004 work Child on the Bridge was published in 2011 in Japanese, with an English translation in preparation.

The short stories "In Search of the Lost Wings of Angels" (tr. Patricia Sieber; tr. Fran Martin) and "Dust" (tr. Howard Goldblatt) are available in English-language anthologies.

Her story "Butterfly"/《蝴蝶》, was made into a film by Hong Kong woman director, Yan Yan Mak, and won awards in Taiwan, 2004, and Hong Kong, 2005.