Good book recommendation: a small fire

Good book recommendation: a small fire

Yesterday, the weather haze index in Zhengzhou broke the chart, and the gray sky was a bit like the end of the world in disaster movie. Since you can't go out, hide in your room and read.

A Little Fire is another masterpiece of Wu Qishi, an American Chinese woman writer, after Silent Confessions. This novel is also based on family ethics. Under the author's ingenious design, taking Mia, a talented wandering artist who secretly took away surrogate children, as the main line, closely surrounding Mia and her daughter Pearl who just entered high school, the story that will happen between Richardson's mother and daughter and four adolescent boys and girls is skillfully woven and spread out, which has a strong * * * sound with readers.

Wu Qishi's superb narrative techniques and her profound description of the children who are about to grow up in her novels, that is, nuanced and profound, have shocked me many times: What should a mother give her children? What do children really need?

I am a woman and a mother, so I especially recommend this book to everyone, especially female friends and mothers with children at home, as well as children who are going through adolescence and preparing to leave home to go to college alone after the college entrance examination. In the novel, the author tells children how to protect themselves in the case of hormonal explosion, how to seek help and deal with it properly after encountering such a horrible event as unexpected pregnancy, and how to get out of the psychological shadow as soon as possible after trouble ... He also tells the children who are about to grow up that even when they are extremely eager and ignorant of love, there are more important things in life than love: reading and pursuing the distance they want.

The author Wu Qishi is the second generation of Hong Kong immigrants. Her parents are scientists. She grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio, graduated from the English Department of Harvard University, and obtained a master's degree in creative writing from the Graduate School of the University of Michigan.

Once published, A Little Fire won 27 American book awards in 20 17. The author Wu Qishi once won 1 of Amazon 100 best books in 20 14, even surpassing Stephen King monk Chunchunshu for a time. I remember I once recommended this book. Wu Qishi's Little Fire is better than Silent Confession in narrative, story telling and character handling.

In Tiny Fire, the author tells us: Always remember that every moment you breathe, you should live the life you really want, not the so-called beautiful and stable life under strict planning.

When I read the chapter in which reporter Mrs. Richardson went to interview and visit Mia's parents on the pretext of finding out the truth about the identity of Mia and Pearl, the couple, who had entered their twilight years, not only lost their beloved son, but also secretly took the child away after surrogacy and lost contact with the daughter of a wandering photographer. It was really heartbreaking, and I couldn't help crying ... It turned out that Mia had been driving her beloved wandering male "rabbit".

There are many details in the book:

"As a parent, your child is not only an individual, but also a place, just like representing the eternal Narnia world. Your present life, your memory of the past and your desire for the future all exist there. Whenever you look at him, you will see the world, think of his childhood, look forward to his future, and even see his past, present and future at the same time like a 3D image. The world dazzles you. If you know how to get there, it will always be your refuge. Every time you leave there-every time your child leaves your sight-you worry that you will never return to that place. "

"Mia held her daughter for a while and buried her nose in her hair. Every time she does this, she is glad to find that her daughter's taste has never changed. Mia suddenly realized that the pearl smelled of home, as if "home" was never a place, but this little guy who could always take it with him. "

Leckie, who just had an abortion in the name of Pearl accompanied by Pearl, sobbed and asked the kind and sincere Mia, Do you think I made a huge mistake? Do you think I am a terrible person?

Pearl's mother Mia replied to Leckie: Although you will always be sad about what happened today, it doesn't mean that you made a wrong choice. It's just a burden you have to bear, and right or wrong, only you know.

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Taking the custody dispute of mirabel Jr. (Zhou Meiling) as an example, the novel tells readers with the arguments of lawyers from both sides that a person should keep close contact with the nationality, race or country where he was born, and even the history and culture of the class, because everyone needs identity. Nowadays, studying abroad has become an extremely common thing. Many families send their children out to become international students in kindergartens, primary schools and junior high schools, leaving their original families and giving up their clan culture ... These children's three views have not yet been formed or stereotyped, and they are likely to become "American-born China people" when they grow up, and become "sandwich layers" under the collision and influence of Chinese and Western cultures and different values, and they can't find their identity, sense of belonging and life.

Wu Qishi, the author, has been trying to convey the idea to us in her novels: generally speaking, there is no absolute right or wrong in the things we encounter, there is no absolute right or wrong in the world, and there are not so many big right and wrong, so we have to admit the existence of gray areas. In most cases, each of us will do something that we regret more than once, and they will become a burden that we have to carry with us. The simple and rude practice of choosing sides and taking sides often doesn't work in life and is easy to misjudge. We also need to make a rational evaluation of our ability to judge right and wrong.

In the book, the protagonist Mia doesn't know how to explain to the underage Pearl that Mrs. Richardson is close to her daughter for a purpose: how does she explain to others that the person she likes is not trustworthy? Simple storyline and detailed description reflect the complexity of real human nature.

"Little Fire" is only1.2000 words. The story is complex and compact, and it is easy to capture readers' hearts. The ending of the novel is not bad. Give readers an open ending and let us imagine.

Translator Sun Lu is also the translator of Confessions of Silence. He translated both books well.

Wu Qishi, a young China writer who is conquering European and American literary circles, is looking forward to her more good works.