Status Updates From The Emperor of Gladness

“It was one of those days where you work your skin off and have no desire, no strength even, to go home. There was a kind of luxury to be amongst this place of sweat and ache and yet sit and suck a cigarette down to its soggy nub and have no one tell you anything because you're off the clock. A dignified, defiant rest.”

I’ve smoked this exact cigarette, myself. Surely many of us have!

I had to return this book in the middle and get back on the hold list and I think that played a part, but I just could not keep going. Grazina and Hai are such endearing characters and there are some great moments, but my goodness nothing is happening, it’s the restaurant to home, and somehow there are still 300 pages to go.