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Story 3: The Paper Menagerie - Dad picked mom out of a catalog

#inspiringstories #inspiration #inspirational #illustration #fantasy #mom #love #audiobook #design #mailorderbride #immigration #challenges #bully #KenLiu #ThePaperMenagerie 00:00 Opening 00:10 Kitchen memory 02:00 Dad had picked mom out of a catalog 03:51 Paper Menagerie 06:08 New neighborhood 07:23 Neighbor boy Mark 10:16 I look nothing like her 12:49 The divergence 15:06 Hospital 18:35 Discovery 21:44 Mom's letter 29:52 Ending From Wikipedia: "The Paper Menagerie" is a 2011 fantasy/magical realism short story by Ken Liu. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The story revolves around Jack, the first-generation American son of a Chinese immigrant mother and a white American father. As a child, Jack is enchanted by his mother's magical ability to make paper animals come to life. These paper creatures play with him, comfort him, and become a vivid representation of the intimate bond he shares with his mother, as well as a link to his Chinese heritage. However, as Jack grows older, he becomes more conscious of the differences between his family and the American families around him. Under the pressure of wanting to fit in, he begins to reject his Chinese heritage. He stops speaking Chinese and distances himself from his mother, ashamed of her accented English and traditional ways. The rift between them widens as the years go by. As an adult, after his mother's death, Jack discovers a letter she wrote to him, but it's in Chinese. With help, he translates it and learns about his mother's tragic past during the Cultural Revolution in China, her journey to America, and her enduring love for him despite his rejection.