Status Updates From 豆子芝麻茶：和妈妈的最后絮叨

This is so 墨迹 like I actually don’t give a shit about any of this

Like 60% of this essay is the narrator crying. I find it tiresome and I think it’s just because the conventions in literature written in English aren’t as blatant as “I wailed and cried” all the time. But I guess Chinese people cry a lot or something because this is all crying. It also makes sense though her mother did die lol

哭 is such an unpretty character, I feel like I have such a visceral reaction to it

Wanting a pig to take care of is so crazy. I don’t think I could agree if I were in the kids’ position

okay this actually ended happily, I’m glad. it was so hard to read because the man treated her so poorly and she actually made the correct decisions each time, she was just unlucky + powerless

This is horrid… I can’t keep reading…

This is bleak as fuck honestly

Everyone in this story is a fucking barbarian… my god

NOOO fuck I was rooting for her but idt this is gonna end happily

Wow men from the Chinese countryside are so trash it’s unbelievable

Yeah Chinese lit generally doesn’t bring you into the scene. Lot of telling.

Yeah leave him wtf

A theme in all Asian literature written by women is: men are misogynistic pigs. Yeah… LOL

The concept of Chinese hospitality is really insane… like you can really bankrupt yourself taking care of your relatives, who really do take advantage of you. I guess I’m lucky to have grown up in a community in which I don’t see a lot of sibling on sibling trickery. But it’s inevitable in a big Chinese family I feel

It’s also crazy his name is 简左邦… Jian Left Nation… cultural revolution (and Mao) was a rot on people’s brains

This woman is too crazy… getting expelled from school TWICE for getting pregnant

I can’t believe this is nonfiction lol. I am so privileged

舅妈在中国给我买这本书，所以我想努力的把它读完