Status Updates From Pink Mountain on Locust Island

I think the reviewers that don’t get it and call it too young also just don’t remember what it was like to be 15 and completely alone lol, this is like what if catcher in the rye was set in a Chinatown and shot by wong kar wai it’s SO GOOD literally made for me 🤗

This has VERVE !! I’m boutta become an indie press lurker, the big pub MFA girls have not been hitting for me in the past like year :(

this is weird and funny and bizarre and confusing and rambling and mysterious and funky and I kind of love it all

‘This is a mother’s job: to make sure her daughter is eating her rice.’

‘Whatever sort of relationship you’re in, never try to be what makes the other person constantly happy, because all you really are is just someone to make things less bad.’

‘Even if you own a restaurant you still end up in a retirement village and also even emperors die.’

‘No one’s listening but still I ask: when was the last time you considered the fact that you are not kings of the world?’

‘Is not one of us the other’s apostle, one of us the other’s messiah’

‘The whole place is a thick round tulip waiting to burst in warm yellows. All these voices like pollen.’