Jan Priddy’s Reviews > Bad Bad Girl > Status Update

...her father beats the backs of her legs for running away from home. With a metal garden post. He beats her until she's bruised and bleeding. But who does she blame? Her mother—of course, she does. Her mother hit her too and that was the reason she ran away. She accuses/blames her mother of favoritism, but her father only seemed to take her side sometimes because she mattered less to him. It was all about #1 son.

I attended a writing retreat with Gish Jen, and I'm curious to discover whether this story aligns with what she told me there.