This entire story kept me really engaged. The development of each character - even somewhat small - was done so very well in such a short story. This story almost reads like a piece of creative non-fiction and I could not help but to wonder throughout, how much of this was actually true?
From the very beginning, she grabs your attention. "My father doesn't want to alarm us." (pg. 896)
And you can't help but wonder what she's talking about at first. It's one of the things that made me want to keep reading. I wanted to know. I guess you could figure it out from the title of the story, but there was just something in that one particular line that caught my attention and kept me invested in the story.
The relationship between the two sister's and even the relationship between the father and Kaitlin is mapped out really well. At the beginning, I could not really understand why the sister was so angry with their father - which again is something that kept me invested in the story. I was hoping that the author would get there and she did in a very elegant way.
"I have left you and taken the Toyota, Dr. Chow - so there!" (pg. 900) quite possibly my favorite line in the entire story. And I think it says a lot about the father's character that he married again shortly after Liu had left him.
The piece really is wonderful and says so much about the dynamics of all different families. That not everything is perfect with anyone and that we are all looking for or "missing someone, something, that perhaps one can't even define anymore." (pg. 905) She writes so beautifully at the end about that and it resonates wonderfully and is incredibly relatable.
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