On New Year’s Eve, TW, Michelle and I went to the big magazine in stand in Evanston to see if we could find some fun, quirky magazines to play with. We found some and we also found some old standbys – like Bookmarks. Inside Bookmarks were a lot of books I hadn’t heard of, including World and Town by Gish Jen. I thought this one sounded interesting so I reserved it at the library and… why have I not read Gish Jen before?
I love her writing. I love her characters. I love this story. As I approached the end of the book, I put it down in favor of some non-fiction because I just didn’t really want the book to end – even though I wanted to keep reading it. I kind of just wanted to keep reading it forever.