I Read Stories: Calcification by Lucy Zhang

Calcification by Lucy Zhang in New Orleans Review

Our narrator’s mother won’t let them eat the bones, even if they’re soft enough. They might calcify, there are calcium deposits already. That’s not how it works, but they are at odds on this.

This is not the only point of difference with her Chinese mother.

Read This: For cross-generational immigrant difference and a hunger for bones
Don’t Read This: The bone thing is too weird as a metaphor