Petals From the Sky by Mingmei Yip

Author:Mingmei Yip
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction - General, Asia, Buddhist nuns, Contemporary Women, Asian American Novel And Short Story, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, Romance, Buddhism, China, Spiritual life, General & Literary Fiction, General, Cultural Heritage, History
ISBN: 9780758241818
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2010-09-15T08:31:11.783000+00:00

Back home, I felt dizzy and had a terrible headache. I paced back and forth in Michael’s apartment, waiting for the click of the door to bring his face.

Michael finally came home at 11:00 PM. Before he even had a chance to take off his jacket, I told him that I had spent the evening with Lisa and that we needed to talk—right here and now.

“All right. I’ll explain. Let’s sit down.” He led me to sit on the sofa. “Meng Ning, yes, Lisa and I were engaged—a few years ago.”

“For how long?”

He hesitated, then said, “Five.”

“Five years? You were engaged for so many years and didn’t marry her?”

Michael didn’t answer my question. He continued on a different track. “After I’d become Professor Fulton’s student and gotten to know Lisa, he’d take us together to museums and concerts. In the beginning I did feel affection for her…she seemed interesting and intelligent.” He paused. “But then it turned out she has a personality disorder—”

“What do you mean?”

“She has frequent nervous breakdowns. When I told her I was going to break the engagement, she tried to slash her wrists…. Meng Ning, this was all in the past—can we just not talk about it now?”

Then the fortune-teller’s reading poured into my mind:

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