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What the actual F was that sex scene

MAKING ME WANNA GO TO THE BALLET EVEN THO EVERYONE THERE IS STARVING THEMSELVES AND THEY ARE NOT INCLUSIVE AT ALL

Rolling my eyes at every page because no shit, Sherlock

This whole time she couldn’t have just texted Faye and asked her if she could borrow her clothes? I stg

As an American Londoner married to a Portuguese, there is a lot for me in this book. But the romance storyline/love triangle is so contrived and I just cannot with it

all this stuff with callum is s0 imacher

Homygod this is sad but also the author is lucky she had friends and a mother figure because I basically had neither growing up. L O L

Omg, the forcing them to do ballet and the “mother is the mother so the daughter has to listen” BS. I’m triggered lol jk kinda

Not just Shanghainese American but 1. A novel that draws heavily from the author’s and/or their mother’s/grandmother’s experiences respectively and 2. A novel that also deals with the time period before (and in this case during) the Cultural Revolution, during more or less my grandparents’ timeline (Gish’s mother was around the same age às my grandparents)

Idk why it’s bad bad girl and not just bad girl

Second Shanghainese American book in a row whatup whatup

The historical sections are making my blood boil. The Japanese + white people had some freaking nerve being all up in Shanghai’s business like that. Smdh

Every character in this book has a drinking problem

It’s culs-de-sac

6th paragraph is so on the nose

Thinking about all this and Taiwan, I am starting to feel physically sick

It’s really good and really soul-destroying. I want to keep reading and at the same time I want to take breaks because it’s HEAVY

i'm on the part about the uyghurs. it is truly horrifying and making me want to throw up