Stone Town in my heart

Author: Guo Xiaolu
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: At seven, she stands on the beach after a typhoon, watching the life and death of the fishing town, witnessing her grandfather's suicide and her grandmother's silence. She tries to escape the unbearable pain of her childhood. At twenty-eight, she lives on the ground floor of a twenty-five-story residential building in Beijing, tying her love to a man who plays frisbee. She feels the inescapable pressures of urban life pressing down from the twenty-four floors above her. She feels naked and helpless. Until one day, a huge dried eel, sealed in a package, is sent from the fishing town. From that second on, the waves of memory carry her away, the twenty-eight-year-old her seeing the seven-year-old her crying on the deck.