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The Lover
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Autobiographical story of growing up in Vietnam. Her parents are teachers. The father dies and the mother stays. They are poor. The mother has a mental illness and doesn't really pay attention to the children. The oldest son steals everything from the family to support his drug habit. The girl, age 15, becomes a lover to a Chinese male.There is no connectivity to anything. She write emotionless and describes sex as something she is observing. Is she actually being sexually abused to support the family and no one does anything to stop it?
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
May 8, 2009
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Finished Reading
June 25, 2010
– Shelved
January 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
1001-challenge
January 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
1001-books
January 23, 2016
– Shelved as:
vietnam
January 23, 2016
– Shelved as:
french-literature