Status Updates From Un beau jour de printemps

You really need to be coming off something light before starting this one. It's incredibly violent, particularly in its treatment of women, and an eye-opening education in Mao's rule and communism in China. It's a necessary read but challenging and emotionally difficult. I'm sticking with it, but I've picked up some lighter, more ridiculous satirical fiction to give my brain a break along the way.