![]() ![]() A performance/installation artist has a child and realizes she’s unable to work. It’s a book about motherhood, but also so much more. Nightbitch was honestly a breath of fresh air in certain ways. On the heels of American War, too, I was just tired of reading about lesbians getting beat up. I almost stopped reading it halfway through. I really liked certain passages of this book, but ultimately it did feel prescriptive. However, as the protagonist cares for an elderly woman in hospice, realizing that ultimately one can care for others without having any support oneself, she realizes her daughter is just trying to make a life. The daughter’s lesbianism greatly distresses mom. Neither was on my To Read list, per se, but once in a while I would think about reading them.Ĭoncerning my Daughter, by Kim Hye-Jin, translated by Jamie Chang (Restless Books)Ĭoncerning My Daughter is about an aging Korean woman whose daughter must move home for financial reasons, and brings her partner. ![]() I bought a used eReader and immediately downloaded these two short reads. ![]()
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