Old-school girl shopping route

"When I met my mother, she was already a mother."
"Old-Fashioned Girl's Shopping Route" is the debut prose work by Hong Ai-chu. After her mother's passing, she channeled her lingering longing into words as crystalline as a fossilized pearl, documenting the abundant meals and fulfilling daily life her mother provided her, from kitchen gadgets to the market, from porridge, flour, and rice to exotic snacks. Reminiscing about her time with her mother, overlaying her grandmother's footsteps with shops she's discovered in recent years, she composes an old-fashioned shopping route. Old-fashioned food, old-fashioned goods, old-fashioned shops, and old-fashioned markets are corridors that travel back in time, clues to the search for memories. Through food, she reminisces about the past, capturing the smoky kitchen ambiance, the lingering family bonds, and the customs and customs of old Taipei with a delicate balance of intensity and subtlety.
Hong Ae-joo's prose is gentle, elegant, and sophisticatedly witty. Using homely meals as the central theme and the queen's mourning as the underpinning, she revisits the family's past and the era of a seemingly prosperous era, recreating the mindset and style of an old-fashioned individual while also frankly addressing the hardships of women's existence. Being old-fashioned is a way of life, and in an era where everyone craves the avant-garde and the new, it's worth being a bit old-fashioned.
There are many articles reminiscing about family, but I absolutely did not want to write about my mother's illness, not in this book, and not in the future. I would rather use writing to recall all the good times we had—from shopping to dining, the vast majority of life's elements. This book is essentially about how the history of a northern Taiwanese family's round-table meals nurtured the independent woman who grew up. I believe that the things that every mother passes on to her children are remarkable and don't need to be celebrated. I would rather write about the support and nourishment that these experiences of our elders provide to our generation of girls.

2023-02-01

北京日报出版社

Ideal Country

304

9787547744086