Braised Pork: A Novel SS_Gift_Guide cultish language is something we

cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day

ditto treacly self-examination

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends

where every choice could be Vesper's last and the fate of a world hangs in the balance

Braised Pork: A Novel SS_Gift_Guide cultish language is something weBeautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in English One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their half full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next