Land of Big Numbers: Stories | 
pickA great collection of short stories, almost all of them unsettled me - particularly the last one.
There are many faces of China here, people who stayed, people who left, a younger generation disconnected from the older ones, people feeling trapped or incomplete in both rural and urban settings. As Chen was a journalist here, she has this wide purview that gives these stories realism - but there is also a little fantasy in some.
Centique Image is the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai. I had dinner up there in the middle of a massive storm - probably not the best place to be in a storm! 2y
TrishB That was brave! I‘ve been to Shanghai but not had dinner there. The first time I went my hotel room was on the 43rd floor and I couldn‘t open the curtains! 2y
Centique @TrishB that‘s very high! 2y
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LeahBergen That would be scary! 😬 2y
LeahBergen @TrishB Oh, I‘m with you there … and I‘m not even that afraid of heights! 2y
TrishB @LeahBergen I‘m not usually that bothered! But it was like sleeping in the sky! Water pressure in the shower was amazing though 😁 2y
Reggie A book of unsettling short stories! Boop-stacked! Also, was the food good or were your taste buds too afraid to taste the food? Lol. That‘s wild. I couldn‘t have done it. 2y
Centique @Reggie it was a buffet, and it was one of those conferences where I ended up with a group of people I didn‘t know (a pretty unlikeable bunch of business people) and didn‘t know what I was eating and just spent the whole night people watching with the wind howling. Very surreal night! 2y
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