Status Updates From Bestiary

“We work our hands into the seam-lipped 口, squatting the way we once did when we dug shitholes in her father’s lot, imagining that if we dug deep enough we’d hit water and our shits would float up as islands we’d founded together.”

Istg this HAS to be a fetish novel

“At night, Ben climbs over my mother’s body and nestles her head in my armpit. We kiss until our tongues can’t tell themselves apart. I dream of biting off her nipple, spitting the coin of it back into her palm. Make a wish, I say, while she flings the nipple-coin into her mouth, swallows.”

Just making out with her gf right next to her mom

“When my mother farts in her sleep, I shape the steam with my hands and release it outside as fog.”

😮‍💨

“She kissed me and my bladder almost unzipped itself, eager to empty, to be filled with what she could give me. I reeled the tail up from between my legs and held it between our bellies, both of us grinding hard against it. It hurt, but it was a hurt that harmonized with my hunger, with the hum of my backmost teeth....”

I wanted a queer read for pride. But at what cost??

“Once, I fished with my father. He taught me which ones to throw back: He said if it’s bigger than your dick, butcher it. If it’s not, give it back to the river.

That's it. I'm done with reading for the rest of the day

“My brother and I spent hours killing him in our mind, rehearsing our grief early. We invented so many ways to kill him before he died of his own body. We knew he would be proud of us. With a plastic bag. With a deep fryer. With a blow dryer. With a tree branch. With a tire swing. With a rope and a pantry....”

Casually fantasizing about murdering their grandpa

“We jarred Agong’s shit and brought it to our zhongyi, who looked at it under light and in the dark, who poked it with a straw and smelled it through one nostril and then the other, reading the odor out loud to us. The zhongyi combed it with a salad fork. We weren’t sure what he was looking for. Maybe death could be unburied from his body like a seed and be replanted in someone else.”

I paid for this book

“My brother farted close to Agong’s face, pulling down his pants and posing his butt cheeks next to Agong’s dreaming mouth. Sometimes Agong woke, skin shimmering in sores. Sometimes his nostrils trumpeted open, breathing it all in. I imagined that his body was full of my brother’s farts, and that one day he’d rise from the bed like a balloon we let go of, a balloon butting the moon aside to replace it.”

Award winner

“Ama undressed and curled beside the riverwoman in the mud, soaking in the palm-sweat of night. She lowered her head to the riverwoman’s skin, tilting her tongue into the belly button, lapping out its sour lake of sweat.”

Gross but honestly this is one of the least grossest passages from this book

“Ama pissed and shat and birthed at the same time, baby snakes streaming out of her. The river hooded over her head and she opened her mouth underwater, exhaling snakes. They poured out from her mouth and anus and vagina by the dozens, writhing away from the radius of her belly.”

Jesus Christ

“Her leftmost snake extended itself like an arm and then doubled back, its head pointing between her legs. It entered her body and nosed its way up her asshole. The right snake looped around itself too, turning toward her body and hooking its head into her vagina. The middle snake, the one thick as her wrist, lifted itself to Ama’s lips....”

It's my own fault for reading this shit until the end

“A NOTE OF CAUTION: All references to water may be slightly exaggerated, but when your agong is pissing all over the backseat, every river feels literal.”

This author is obsessed with pissing. 38 mentions of piss and 13 mentions of pee in the ebook

“In Ama’s last letter, she’d written that my mother was conceived with the river, and Agong didn’t look like a river to me, except when he wet himself, his piss souring the seat, dribbling out of his bladder like the juice of a squeezed fruit.”

Great now I'm picturing it

“But Ba’s eyes are years behind, stalled on the same sky: back when warplanes had anuses that dilated open and shat dung-bombs, spraying a diarrhea that scarred your skin.”

I thought the sun : scrotum thing was the worst analogy but this author continues to deliver. My god

“The new chinks in town with their bowlegged daughters.”

Chinese on Chinese hate

“His penis looked like a boiled prawn.”

Well that's on me for picking this up first thing in the morning

“You’re here, watching bald-assed monkeys masturbate on TV.”

All right time for me to go to bed

“in my dreams my shits are soldiers I bury them in my yard”

Okay grandma. Time for you to go to bed

“at night a daughter is a source of light among others: fireflies you used to catch in your teeth bite open drink their assfuel”

Assfuel

“once I brought a piglet into my wedding bed tucked it between my legs & let your Ba fuck that instead”

I should've known that bestiality wouldn't be a hard limit for this author 🫪

Spent a few hours paddle boarding and enjoying nature. Now back to this mess 🙃

“The morning we leave, the sun sags in the sky like a scrotum.”

WORST simile ever

“Sometimes, their lovemaking was closer to prayer: My grandfather held Ah Zheng’s semen in his mouth for as long as possible, torturing it of taste.”

Disgusting yet I can't stop reading 🤡

“He went to sea on a boat he’d stolen from a fisherman. Cut the man’s throat and speared him in the water. The blood summoned a shark, which swam off with the fisherman’s balls in its mouth.”

This entire book is out of pocket so idk why I'm shocked by the last line lmao

“THIS IS HARDCORE. IS IT CANNIBALISM IF YOU EAT YOUR SISTER WHO’S ANOTHER SPECIES?”

👁️👄👁️

“My brother refused to go because he said boys went into the trees around the reservoir and dipped their dicks in and out of each other’s mouths. When I asked why, he said, That’s just how they speak. I imagined their penises as instruments: You blew to make them sing. I looked into the trees but couldn’t see any boys holding penises up to their lips like flutes.”

WHAT

“Dayi was born without blood. A doctor had to kill a goat and use tubes to siphon goatblood into Dayi’s empty veins. But the doctor accidentally pumped too much blood into her, turning her red-hard and bloated as an apple. When Ama bathed her in a bucket, she bobbed ass-up in the water.”

How did this get published