Kamala Markandaya--Nectar in a Sieve--I read this in Burma when I was 10-13 years old.

https://www.amazon.com/Nectar-Signet-Classics-Kamala-Markandaya/dp/0451531728/ref=asc_df_0451531728?mcid=b70e6547dab93172a90bf78cb5552313&hvocijid=7917918382873205467-0451531728-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7917918382873205467&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007767&hvtargid=pla-2281435178098&psc=1

My father said, "You can't write something like that,or that (Pearl Buck, The Good Earth) because you haven't known abject proverty."

Maybe I could. If I wished to.

But it would be just"nasty,brutal and short."

I didn't know Nectar has sold 1 m copies.

There are so many stories like this, "out of Burma, " one Karen woman was displaced about 13 times--rape victims who did not survive, in Human Rights Reports, on Facebook.

Maybe I should write a revenge novel.

Ravenant is very good, movie shows a bear attack based on real footage.

The hero seeks warmth in winter by cutting open a horse that just died and sleeping inside it.

One airhead little girl said,"Aunty, your stories are full of dead bodies."

Well--they can be full of everything I wish to put in them, including sh**holes.

What an a**hole.

I'm glad these people never contact me--I'm tired of simpering little voices saying on the phone,"Aunty,how are you?"

I feel like saying, like my Applied Ecos prof. said in a lecture.

"Stop beating around the bush, get to the point."

Usually they want me to publish their book, translate their friend's book, make up a presentation for their daughter, make up a title for their boyrfriend's music, and so on and so forth,

but I have to put myself first. I have dishes to wash and laundry to do, time to rest, time to sleep, food to cook,floor to clean, medications to manage, surgery and treatments to schedule.

I also heard my father saying to my mother once, "If you act like a log, others will kick you."

Tiresome, boring, especially, excuse me, yapping Burmese.

kmk

1-14-2025