Empire of Glass by Kaitlin Solimine

Author:Kaitlin Solimine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632460561
Publisher: IG Publishing
Published: 2017-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

28. “When words are made futile, we cannot count on poetry anymore.” Li-Ming’s full weight was in my arms. She couldn’t walk the four floors so we took turns taking her outside, like a dog needing to pee, then carrying her back upstairs. My knees shook. I’m only 16! But who was I to interrupt this history lesson? Carrying her made me feel older. Like I was someone important. We made it to the third floor landing and I left her there while I went to ask Baba for help with the last set of stairs. “What are you doing? It’s freezing out,” he said from the doorway after I banged on the door’s steel frame. I wore a tank top in 65-degree weather. “It’s plenty warm. It’s spring,” I said. He said, “You’ll get sick and then we’ll all get sick,” reminding me in a Chinese family there’s no individual action nor consequence—everything I would do from the moment I entered the Wang home would have an impact on everyone in the family’s fates. Baba, wearing only a tank top and shorts but somehow exempt from his rules, jogged downstairs to help me. “She’s freezing,” he said, draping Li-Ming’s arms around his shoulders so her entire body clung to his chest. “I’m not cold,” she assured him, but Baba didn’t hear her or maybe I’m already falsifying facts in order to make right what long ago was made wrong. Inconsequential, I hear a voice say, and if I were to follow its cue, I’d climb right back into the middle of someone else’s story, snugly framed by the padded weight of a fattening fiction.

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