I thought I was used to living alone, but I still long for someone to be looking for me at this moment. The genius writer Clement is read by literary giants!
The 17-year-old mother ran away from home with her newborn daughter, Pearl, and drove to the Indian Waters Trailer Park. The abandoned park is backed by a garbage dump and is a mixed bag of good and bad. The mother and daughter slept together in the back seat of the car and in the front seat for 14 years. Until a piercing gunshot, Pearl was alone.
From the bad land filled with gun violence, to the short-term foster care life, and then to the unknown journey to Mexico, Pearl thought she had long been accustomed to a lonely and wandering life, but those fleeting warmth along the way made her realize that she had always longed for someone to be looking for her...
Reader comments
I want to say that this is a novel that is true and reveals the disasters in those places. Children can own guns at will, their parents may be drug makers, there may be bad things in the garbage dump, and they feel normal, even common. A lot can be revealed. They are all struggling people, but they also long for a destination. These are things we cannot imagine in a peaceful, institutionalized country (good translation accent)
I want to say that this is a novel that is true and reveals the disasters in those places. Children can own guns at will, their parents may be drug makers, there may be bad things in the garbage dump, and they feel normal, even common. A lot can be revealed. They are all struggling people, but they also long for a destination. These are things we cannot imagine in a peaceful, institutionalized country (good translation accent)