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Alma Presses Play

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艾爾瑪的人生充滿了各種「一半」:她有一半華人、一半猶太血統;父母一半時間在爭吵,另一半時間沉默;而她自己也正處於蛻變為女人的半途中。但只要還能聽著隨身聽、和朋友在村裡的台階上閒晃、騎著單車穿梭紐約街頭,一切似乎都還過得去。直到那一年,所有事物接連迎來終點:朋友搬走、戀情開花又凋零、父母離婚——轉眼間,她熟悉的生活就此結束。在這個充滿混亂開端、過程與結局的世界裡,艾爾瑪準備好按下她人生原聲帶的播放鍵了嗎?

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Nicholas ★★★★★

The way Alma’s identity is woven through her family’s silences and half-spoken tensions felt so real it was almost uncomfortable to read, in the best way. I finished it in two sittings and kept thinking about her long after the last page.

Benjamin ★★★★★

Alma’s inner voice is so sharply drawn I kept forgetting I was reading fiction, not someone’s diary. The way she navigates her split identity hit close to home, and I finished it in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down.

Ryan R. ★★★★★

I picked this up for a book club and finished it in two sittings — the way Alma’s identity is caught between her Chinese and Jewish sides felt so raw and real. The half-finished sentences and silences between her parents hit uncomfortably close to home. Definitely one of those stories that lingers a