One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Life, death, family, marriage, sex, rape/surviellance culture. It feels like I'm reading more canadians-of-south-east-asian-heritage recently. Koul covers some interesting topics in as a brown woman westerner with complicated familiar relationships and ties to India but one of her early phrases really hit me in the feels:
“Nothing bad can happen to you if you're with your mom. Your mom can stop a bullet from lodging in your heart. She can prop you up when you can't. Your mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.”