Hotel On the Corner of Bitter And Sweet (2011)
“He’d wiped the mud and garbage off on his coat sleeve and stored them in the old washbasin beneath the stairs until he could give them to Sheldon for safekeeping. But from that moment on, he began to feel like a ghost in the little brick apartment he shared with his parents. They didn’t speak to him; in fact, they barely acknowledged his presence. They’d speak to each other as if he weren’t there, and when they looked his way, they’d each pretend to look right through him. He hoped they were pr...etending anyway.
At first he’d talked to them regardless, in English – just table conversation – then later, pleading in Chinese. It didn’t matter. Their great wall of silence was impervious to his best attempts to subvert it. So he too said nothing. And since his parents’ conversations often had to do with Henry’s schooling, Henry’s grades, Henry’s future, in Henry’s absence, they said very little. The only sounds heard in their tiny home came from the rustling of the daily newspaper or the squelch and static of the wireless radio – playing news bulletins on the war and the latest local updates on rationing and drills of the Civil Air Defense.MoreLess
At first he’d talked to them regardless, in English – just table conversation – then later, pleading in Chinese. It didn’t matter. Their great wall of silence was impervious to his best attempts to subvert it. So he too said nothing. And since his parents’ conversations often had to do with Henry’s schooling, Henry’s grades, Henry’s future, in Henry’s absence, they said very little. The only sounds heard in their tiny home came from the rustling of the daily newspaper or the squelch and static of the wireless radio – playing news bulletins on the war and the latest local updates on rationing and drills of the Civil Air Defense.MoreLess
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