The Unfilial Clare Best whilst your work emails pile

whilst your work emails pile up without ever being read

accompanied by ‘hair portraits’ taken by the poets

you won’t find any unnecessary “fluff” in here – just useful stuff

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The Unfilial Clare Best whilst your work emails pileModern China moves fast, leaving its people trailing behind. The mirage of a picture perfect home compels some to gamble away the family house, while others live with debts of a shameful past. When something inevitably cracks, its always the women who are left to pick up the pieces. In four stories, Yao Emei shines a brutally honest light on the crumbling foundations of the family unit with scalpel sharp precision. As her characters struggle to escape