This story blew me away from start to finish. The sheer poetry that drips from every line sings to my heart, and the bittersweet tugged at me the whole time. Everything about this story satisfies on so many levels, and I'm going to have to read much more of this world now.

My only regret is that I can't read Chinese, so I can't even pronounce the inserts, let alone understand the meaning behind them. I can only guess what secrets lie hidden in them.

Edit: Is it odd that I only realized it was told in second-person after reading reviews? The writing captivated me so quickly that it seemed to fuse me with the world she imagines, and maybe that helped for me.