My home is next to Zhang Rixing (2026 International Booker Prize winner, Yang Shuangzi's personal life writing).

Childhood was a melee in the ruins. In the cement house Grandma built with her own hands, we were warring siblings, both loving and hateful. ▍Yang Shuangzi's First Collection of Essays ▍ Includes the First Prize winner of the 4th Taichung Literature Award, Essay Category: "My Home is Next Door to Zhang Rixing" Home is where life's deepest scars are kept. In a chaotic family, broken and scattered, everyone has a part to play. Grandma was a bricklayer unskilled in design; the house had two living rooms, two main entrances, two bathrooms, two staircases, and not a single rectangular room. Dad was a free-spirited man who ran away from home; Mom retreated early from the front lines of parenting; occasionally, an uncle played the tiger father; then there was Grandpa, a live-in son-in-law who had long holed himself up, and a crazy cousin who constantly hurled threats— Yang Shuangzi's childhood was a melee in the ruins, where maggots crawled on the walls, and guardians were perpetually absent; creditors occasionally knocked on the door, and precious instant noodles served as weapons. The dilapidated old house in her memory is full of absurd family stories that make you laugh and cry. But twins are the best; they share a book, endure hunger and canings together, and conquer video game levels together. From when Mom and Dad were home to when they weren't, they were each other's eternal support. But what is home? What is eternity? It wasn't until her sister's death, when "we" became "I," and life felt like a cosmic imbalance, that she realized life's maze is full of twists and turns, and only disappearance is eternal... Yang Shuangzi's first collection of essays humorously revisits the origins of her own life, expressing her most sincere and moving love and longing for her deceased sister. "Drowning is very quiet, please be aware."

出版日期/Publication Date：December 25, 2020
出版社/Publisher：寶瓶文化事業有限公司
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页数/Page: 272