There's a Juvenile Mental Hospital in Brooklyn

Sasha, a woman who immigrated to New York with her husband and children, continues to reinvent herself in the cracks between language and destiny. She thought life could be a routine: work, pay off debts, raise a family, and maintain dignity. However, the boringness of marriage and emotional hypothermia are infinitely magnified in the loneliness of a foreign country. Her husband's failure and avoidance, and her mother's prejudice and silence made her fall into self-doubt again and again. It wasn't until she found a job as a translator in a juvenile mental hospital in Brooklyn, facing injured children and twisted families, that she gradually faced her long-repressed emotions and desires. In the corridor of that red brick building, she saw not only the madness of others, but also the part of herself that had been tamed by civilization and morality. She witnessed the bursting souls of teenagers amid cultural rupture and family repression, the silent war between parents between tradition and modernity, and also witnessed the power struggles and performances in public mental hospitals, where the truth and interests were wrapped up in layers. Sasha is both an observer and a coerced one. When an unexpected emotion approaches, she is forced to make a choice between loyalty and truth, responsibility and desire. The passion outside marriage is both salvation and a mirror, allowing her to see clearly the subtle crack between marriage and herself. "There's a Juvenile Psychiatric Hospital in Brooklyn" is a novel about drifting and belonging, institution and human nature, marriage and freedom. With a calm and poetic style, it reveals the spiritual dilemma and family tests in a foreign country, and explores how people can still live out their souls between morality and reality.