The overly beautiful Susan has escaped her favorite plum bamboo horse, Philip, since the unexpected death of her parents. Fleeing her familiar homeland, she chose to join the "Peace Guard" to help those struggling with the disaster. Philip waited a few years and chose Mary, and nine years later, Susan's daughter, Lisa, came down from the sky to his side.
Susan and Philip are lovers of green plums and bamboo horses, and they do not have any secrets from each other. But Susan began to change after the accident of her parents, on the one hand, she did not want to live like her parents, on the other hand, the departure of her parents, she did not have a good way to let herself go out calmly, even the closest person, as if transformed into a hedgehog, put away all the softness, far away.
Another two years later, Susan asked Philip to meet at the airport, an hour after Susan's transfer, and since she joined the Peace Guard, she had been rescuing those who had suffered in the hurricane every day, busy and dangerous. The pair of lovers are like the Tanabata Queqiao meeting, briefly entangled.
Susan often wrote letters to Philip, pouring out their thoughts about different places, and every time she read the letter, she had inexplicable sorrow, obviously in love but was blocked by two places, one side looked through the autumn water, and the other was haggard. Time flies by, separating the two places, and Susan persuades Philip to find a new lover. Because she herself knows that although they love deeply, they are always missed, and loneliness has been devouring them.
Philip meets a journalist beauty, Mary, and tells Susan. At first Philip could not let go of Susan and rejected Mary, but Susan began to make Philip accept Mary, and then Mary and Philip got married, and pleaded with Susan to go to the wedding, Susan flew far away in a plane, but when she saw Philip and Mary at the wedding, she hesitated and flinched. Heartbroken Susan's tears ran down her eyes and cheeks and flew away. But she didn't know what had quietly left, Philip just pretended not to see it, he knew clearly how many steps Susan had taken into the auditorium, and he watched her run away.
Nine years on, The Philip family is happy. On this day suddenly someone brought him a 9-year-old girl named Lisa. Holding a red balloon in her hand, her hair disheveled on her forehead, and her mixed-race countenance made a huge wave in Philip's heart, because her mother's name was Susan, and she was said to have died in a rescue. Lisa stayed at Philip's house, silent, still missing her mother, still missing her home, Honduras, and having nightmares every night.
Mary felt like she was going to lose Philip because of Lisa's appearance. She felt like a failure, and her new eldest daughter, Lisa, struggled to fit into the family. Philip had been silent. Until another time in school, Lisa desperately protected Philip and Mary's son, that bravery made Mary infected at once, Mary promised her, after graduating from high school, Lisa can choose her own life, she will not stop.
What happiness is, Philip and Mary are dating for a vacation together. Lisa took her brother to school together, and they grew up together. In the blink of an eye, Lisa graduated from high school, and Mary watched her daughter grow up day by day, but she couldn't stop her from returning to Honduras, the place where she was born and where her mother was. But she did not expect that Philip had taken Lisa to meet someone who had disappeared for nineteen years, had abandoned Lisa, and was secretly in love with her. She was Susan, and she was still alive.
Lisa rejected her mother, because she was annoyed in her dreams for the days without her mother's comfort, missing the tears left by her mother and washing the pillow over and over again, but when she woke up, she found that her mother was not by her side, fortunately, she met the gentle Mary, every time she touched the hand on her forehead, each time quietly comforted her, filling Lisa's lonely and young heart, and the indispensable maternal love.
But Susan has a hard-to-say reason, she doesn't want her daughter to be like her, she wants her daughter to be able to go to school, to grow up healthy, to be able to choose, to be close to happiness. She was also selfish, but every time she secretly came to see Lisa, she was also suffering, and now that her daughter had become a young girl, she was happy and sad. The daughter has love, has a good college, and at every important moment, there is no Susan herself.
Lisa forgave Susan. Just like those who used to, the smoke disappeared.
Warm excerpt:
Do you know? The rain always wants to break into all places, as long as you are not paying attention, it will succeed, it will pour into your brain and drown you. After taking your life, it will flow out of your eyes to harm other people. Don't lie to me, I just saw the rain in your eyes, you don't have to endure, it's too late! You've let the rain pour into your head, you're not saved! ” A child who "wants to make the sun on the roof to drive away the heavy rain" comes to her house, something Mary doesn't want to see. But hidden in this child is a fragment of another woman's soul, and it is this soul that has always touched the tenderness of the heart of the man she loves. Lisa asks Mary what exactly is a paradox? Mary put her hand on the doorknob of the room and revealed a warm smile: "The so-called paradox is that I will never be your mother, and you will always be my daughter." Sleep and everything will be fine. ” Lisa put her hand on Susan's, smiled softly, and said to her mother, "Do you know what my paradox is?" Maybe I'm not your daughter, but you'll always be my mom. "They made a promise to each other that they would correspond at least regularly in the future. When the weather is nice, Lisa can go to Honduras to visit Susan. Then Lisa stood up, went around the table, and hugged Susan. She rested her head on her mother's shoulder, smelled the scent of soap on her body, and suddenly remembered many childhood memories.
Where Are You? " was published in 2001 by my favorite French writer, Marc Levy. The readability is very good, especially in the form of letters, and those indispensable human pasts. In the book, Susan and Philip, who originated from Ome, forgot about each other and parted ways. I also pity where Susan's love is, lamenting her struggle and escape from fate. But I still like her kindness.
This reminds me of my playmates when I was a child, but now they are separated from each other, and they remain in the memory, and slowly condense the way they were when they were young. People face many choices in life, like "Lovely Bones" I read yesterday, how to say goodbye to ourselves, how to fill the spiritual gap. It is time, it is a good medicine, but it also means bitterness and difficult to swallow.