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On the Writing

The essays stand alone. Read together, they show a life.

Hong Kong.
Canberra.
Sydney.
Berlin.
Bordeaux.
Paris.
Koh Samui.

A husband.
Three daughters.
Parents.
Friends.
Dogs.
Hotels.
Airports.
Markets.
Restaurants.
Bedrooms.

The same woman appears in all of them.

Sometimes she is pregnant.

Sometimes she is exhausted.

Sometimes she is furious.

Sometimes she is naked.

Sometimes she is feeding children.

Sometimes she is feeding a husband.

Sometimes she is being fed.

The essays do not separate these things.

A woman does not stop being sexual when she becomes a mother.

She does not stop being powerful when she becomes a wife.

She does not stop being nurturing when she takes authority.

She does not stop being desirable because she ages.

The work begins from a simple assumption:

A woman is whole.

The essays simply follow what happens afterwards.


Notes from Lai Yin

Most weeks I publish a new essay.

Sometimes it is about food.
Sometimes it is about daughters.
Sometimes it is about marriage, travel, sex, grief, aging, dogs, airports, or finding home in a new country.

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