"Things We Didn't Talk About".
Author: Mark Levy.
Publication: People's Literature Publishing House.
Mark Levy has a new book! I vaguely remember that when I was in high school, I read his book "The Man Who Stole the Shadow", and my tears were not contained, and after reading this book, I subconsciously felt that this book must also be warm and healing. The healing ** may be another tear gas, and after reading it, the consequences are not true, and it really bursts into tears.
Imagine how it would be like to be a daughter when her father's funeral and her daughter's wedding were on the same day. The father in the story is named Anthony, and he may not express his concern and love for his daughter, like most fathers. After the death of his wife, he plunged into work and worked hard in order not to let himself fall into endless grief and to be able to give his daughter a better life.
But in the eyes of her daughter Julia, her father ignored her and even missed many important moments in her life. The father has allowed her to grow up freely since she was a child, but he will make choices for his daughter in an extremely tough way. Maybe this way of getting along is a love for his daughter in the eyes of the father, but in the eyes of the daughter, it is a father who does not understand himself and is making trouble unreasonably.
As a result, Julia is full of resentment towards Anthony, and the father and daughter become cold and alienated. Even the father and daughter can go without contact for a long time, the father does not know that Julia is about to get married, and the daughter does not know that the father is about to die. At the persuasion of a friend, Julia sent her father an invitation to the wedding, but unsurprisingly, her father did not attend.
Julia learns that her father has died! She had to suspend her wedding, and the day after her father's funeral, she received a wooden box with a robot inside, and her father returned to her in the form of a robot, and Julia spent a few days with the robot, and in just a few days, she seemed to have started a spiritual journey and opened all the knots in her past.
Actually, I can understand Julia very well, maybe it's just the anger between the child and the parents, but there are things that can't be made up for once they are missed. The pain of a child who wants to raise but his relatives are absent cannot be understood by those who have not experienced it. Sometimes children also have to understand their parents, and the estrangement between them and their children may also be caused by lack of communication.
There is a passage in the book that really broke my defense, we can complain about our childhood life, we can keep accusing our parents of all the shortcomings that made us, we can blame them for the hardships of life, fragile character and timidity, but we have to be responsible for ourselves in the end, and we have to become the person we want to become.
Oh, yes! Mark Levi presented the deep fatherly love in front of us, and it also triggered my thinking about family affection, and I really hope that we can reconcile with the knot in our hearts and better communicate with our parents, because we love each other deeply!