Her brother went missing because of her ex-husband, who didn't know what was good for her, and planted a gentle prairie above her head?! Hmph, if that's the case, then don't blame her for hugging someone else's thigh to take revenge on you! Geng Bao helped her attack. What was there to be afraid of?

Her brother went missing because of her ex-husband, who didn't know what was good for her, and planted a gentle prairie above her head?! Hmph, if that's the case, then don't blame her for hugging someone else's thigh to take revenge on you! Geng Bao helped her attack. What was there to be afraid of?

Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband. Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck."

Married eight years, husband addicted to online gambling, waste business, Xia Yuhan had to take charge of the family business, for him to pay off the gambling debts. On the crowded way back from work, I ran into my husband holding a bright and beautiful little demoness in his arms. Xia Yuhan dispiritedly decided to divorce her daughter along with her, but her ex-husband arrogantly said that giving up on her would be her loss. The little goblin even took her ex-husband's hand and swore to her. Suddenly, a refined and mature figure jumped out from the crowd. He knelt down on one knee, and raised the diamond ring in his hand. "Dearest, please marry me."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times