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What women remember

What Women Remember

Essays on memory, marriage, motherhood, travel, and the things we only understand years later.

Contents

Chicago
4 min read

On forgetting
2 min read

On airports
3 min read

On daughters
2 min read

Paris
5 min read

Thirty-three essays.

Chicago.

Hong Kong.

Paris.

Bordeaux.

Porto.

Hotel rooms.

Train stations.

Kitchen tables.

Old arguments.

Small kindnesses.

Things said once.

Things remembered twenty years later.

A marriage seen from a different distance.

Children growing older.

Parents becoming fragile.

A woman looking back and discovering what was there all along.

Some essays are funny.

Some are tender.

Some are sexual.

Some still sting.

Some only made sense years later.

Taken separately, they are moments.

Read together, they become memory.

Formats: PDF and EPUB

Length: approximately 18,000 words

Contents: 33 essays

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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