Above the Rain
Víctor del Árbol, translated by Lisa Dillman
"It all came to a head in the most surprising way."
"It all came to a head in the most surprising way."
"The gardener had left the gate ajar as planned."
"Qiao Hongmei stood before the mirror, posing the way he’d described her, with her weight on one leg."
"'In fact,' my sister murmured without looking my way, 'it made me think of someone. I had an...encounter, years ago, didn’t I ever tell you? Something happened to me.'"
"Almost all the people I called my peers were second-generation township dwellers."