Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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My Mother's Secret Rebellion
On a 13-hour flight from China to Canada, I drank an entire can of sprite. As I was puking into it, I thought of my mother in an event that she knew had happened because she was there. She and her father were eating with a happy Asian couple who turned out to be my mom and dad. My husband said FOMO is fear of missing out on what you have left behind. Yes, we love art, she replied.
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