A Yellow House by Karien van Ditzhuijzen

Author:Karien van Ditzhuijzen [van Ditzhuijzen, Karien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912049356
Publisher: Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
Published: 2018-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

I tried reading the report, but there were so many things I didn’t understand that I didn’t even know what questions to ask Mama. I hadn’t had a conversation like this with her since I couldn’t remember when. But somehow it had fallen flat when we started talking about the aunties of today.

How were they different? Were they less interesting? The things Mama had told me mixed with what I’d learned from Aunty M, and not all of it added up. The good feeling I’d had during our talk faded away. I didn’t want to become a feminist. I wanted my mother to build me a yellow house, like the one Aunty M would build for Nurul; or even better, like PoPo’s Blue House.

But Mama didn’t care what I wanted. But honey, we have a house! Isn’t this a beautiful condo? I could already hear her reply. And then she’d say something about financial independence being more important than a house. Would we ever understand each other? But if feminism was what it took for me to get Mama back, perhaps I needed to make an effort.

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