2020年结束前一个月,我终于读到了一本让我很有倾诉欲的书,Earthlings (台版译名:地球星人)。读到这本书纯属偶然,那是Biden胜选的周六,我和小哥在哈佛广场逛书店,看到了这本封面是很可爱的刺猬玩偶的书,和书店的工作人员简单聊天知道这本书的作者之前写过一个很querky的短篇故事《便利店的女人》(The Convenience Store Women)。一听这本书的作者擅长写querky的故事,再加上可爱的封面,我二话不说买下了这本书。
On Jan. 20, 1993, as newly inaugurated President Bill Clinton read outgoing President H.W. Bush’s words — left for him inside a desk in the Oval Office — the burgeoning connection between the once-political rivals became inked on stationery beneath an embossed presidential seal.