“this is a man’s lot. And what did I get? An embarrassment of daughters. A shame of sisters…Did they serve lunch politely and tirelessly? Did they both show modesty and dignity?"
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Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
“These past several months, Dad’s missed several classes, insisted on another professor’s parking spot, and wept in the lecture hall without apparent cause.
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
"...it was comforting to know that nothing stayed the same for too long, that each days was a new opportunity for reinvention. A person could be transformed by a fresh wardrobe or a different nickname..."
The Party by Elizabeth Day
“I had met him twice at Ben’s dinner parties, long before he became smooth and polished and airbrushed, one of those public men incapable of shaking a hand without clasping it.”