And, so, I felt reluctant, but compelled to pick up her new book, a collection of short stories called Bliss Montage. Ma's writing, in short, stays with you whether you want it to or not.
The novel was already disturbing in and of itself because of its sardonic tone and its mundane imagery that smoothly morphed into the macabre. By early spring of 2020, Ling Ma was being hailed as an oracle of the pandemic.īut the prophetic quality of Severance only enhanced its power. Check out her TED talk for the Cliff Notes version.Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" - a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. Or how she tracked down the origin of General Tso’s Chicken. Or do they write Yoda-like fortunes because that what everyone expects?įor more cool facts about how fortune cookies aren’t even Chinese but American, read The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Leigh. I know that fortune cookies are made in the US, but I wonder what the author’s grasp on English is. Maybe you can decipher some of the sayings for me. So here are some of my favorites from our recent outings. I’ve been instagramming the fortunes almost every week, when I realized that I started a photo series.ĭo you see the irony of the duplicate fortunes in the same cookie. Those little slips of paper are very entertaining, even if they don’t make sense. Now that Sophia can actually read her slip of paper in the fortune cookie, it’s become a fun ritual.
At the end of each meal, the kids look forward to their fortune cookies. The rest of the family enjoys Chinese food as well. I have yet to try an Asian cuisine I don’t like.
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