Other Moons by Quan Manh Ha

Author:Quan Manh Ha
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Anyone who visited the village and asked about Tuc would hear the story of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. She had been lovesick and gone crazy and left the village, the gossips would explain. When she finally returned, she had a child and lived the rest of her life like a mute, reclusive woman. But her child was beautiful, as if he’d stepped out of a painting.

Well, ill fate was always associated with beauty, the gossips would say, sighing. If only Tuc had not been too picky and married Hao, she would’ve had a great life. In my entire village, only Hao was wealthy. He joined the military but never shot a gun or fought in a battle, and still he was promoted to the rank of major. Though his wife was eccentric and unattractive, she came from a powerful and rich family. Hao needed only to rely on his father-in-law for his own upward mobility. Who else from our village could’ve done better than he?

Nobody remembered that Tuc had once been the most beautiful girl in the village.

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