Status Updates From Aviary

I'm usually not a stickler for plot holes but why is the guy in charge of this whole operation surprised that her passport is forged when she gave him her passport in the beginning?? He didn't notice that it was her sister's name?? The same sister that he was probably SA'ing?? 🤔🤔

“Unlike Hee-Young, I’ve got a cruel streak in me— from my mother, from my father, I don’t know. I could never love anything the way I love myself, and I know exactly what kind of mother I’d be.”

Damn girl

This lady's husband is such a fucking loser. I can't with this

‘“I don’t speak Korean,” she says, matter-of-factly. “The Soviets banned the language....”’

Damn

“my ancestors are Korean, like yours. We’re Koryo-saram—Koreans that moved to Vladivostok a century ago. Within two generations, my family had become part of the fabric—ranking members in the party, going to important dinners, working and living their lives. And then Stalin deported them all to Central Asia and left them to starve. Most of them did.”

Learning new things from this book goddamn

This is some Epstein shit

“When we’re finished, I glance at the mirror and my stomach rolls. Like hanbok, kimono are modest garments, but the interpretation in front of me is the Asian sister of Heta’s sexy milkmaid outfit— tight, short, and sleek.”

Omg noooo

They're making her wear a Korean religiocultural mask while wearing a kimono??? 😭

“Ancient brides were treated as property—virgins who often had their eyelids glued shut on their wedding day so they couldn’t see the much older strangers they were being forced to marry. But unlike the concubine, they were upheld as icons of purity, a representation of society functioning in harmony and as it should—as long as the opinion of the bride wasn’t considered.”

👁️👄👁️

Lady, anyone could've told you that your ex-husband was taking advantage of these young women in his house

Why is this chick in her cohort eating CLAY

Why would she attempt to make a clay pot when she knows nothing about pottery?? Or even art for that matter??? The secondhand embarrassment is real 😭

“Am I a terrible person, a murderer? Yes, and yes. But that doesn’t mean I deserve a life behind bars.”

She married a hotshot old money lawyer and got out of TWO car accidents where she killed people?? BRUH????

“...I explained the ceremony and offered them the chance to opt out. And Dr. Pepperdine carefully calibrated the dosages. These girls, they have so much trauma. LSD can help them challenge maladaptive beliefs and try out new perspectives. And an experience like this will cement them as a group....”

HUH

This is such a depressing read. A young undocumented woman (twice over) has to pretend to be her sister in order to survive. And a wife in a loveless marriage who married her husband bc she liked his old money mansion? Wack

Shepherd & his band of merry pimps deserve a slow and painful d*ath

Callie is a weird freak. I usually have a hunch of where something is going but I feel as disoriented as the main character rn. Bravo