"Their Private Lives".
The book was an instant sensation, with 30,000 readers on Goodreads, and then it was selected for the National Book Award, winning the Faulkner Prize for Literature and the Outstanding Short Story of the Year.
The book tells the intimate stories of nine women whose identity anxieties and life circumstances as daughters, mothers, grandmothers, wives, and lovers.
The length is short, but none of the stories are superficial.
Peach Tart is about a poor mother and daughter, whose mother makes delicious peach pies for the pastor every Monday, and then the two go into their mother's room and close the door.
The daughter's heart was full of reverence and purity for God, but when she grew up, she understood everything and still fell in love with the pastor's son. She asked her mother why she was like this, but her mother did not apologize, "Without that man, we would not be able to live, and you would not have the opportunity to study."
A Guide to Married Men" is full of irony, and it seems that every word is admonishing married men, "cheat to be calm", "maintain the necessary conscience", "don't divorce for me", but in fact, it reveals the truth: the bondage of marriage cannot ** a person's heart.
"Euler" is about two 40-year-old women, about a free life, about re-examining the current life choices and emotional relationships.
Reading this book, it is like lying on the floor on a dreary summer day and looking up at the old-fashioned electric fan, the leaves embedded in the bamboo strips are turning weakly, the ceiling skin seems to be falling off, and the words are real and soft pain, with a kind of reckless sincerity, infiltrating into every nerve ending!!
Between the lines, she slowly fades away the fig leaf, bitterness and confusion, fear and anxiety, struggle and bondage, and the desire for freedom, too many female abyssal states, too many tired, undignified moments, even deviant.
But this book is recommended for all girls to read, just like a puddle of water accumulated at the feet after the rain, the book reflects its own shadow, we will gain unprecedented courage and strength, deep resonance and touching.
We really need an opportunity to give an outlet to the exhaustion and depression that have been accumulating all along.