#blue hunger

[safirefire]

the Blue Hunger audiobook was such a good listen

[lesbospackagetour]

‘Xu didn’t answer my calls for days. In class, I tried to focus on my students. On the importance of helping them to express themselves in another language. Every language brings new emotions along with it. What had Chinese brought me? Love, hate, frustration, solitude. And something else too. A feeling without a name, a feeling of being small, like being three years old again and needing to be held more than anything. It wasn’t quite love, because it was impersonal. It’s not love when a baby animal at the zoo clings to a plush mother. It wasn’t even solitude, because companionship didn’t slake it, only reinforced it. It was an obscure hunger, so full of ferocity and hope it seemed religious. Absolute like our first cry when we’re pushed out of the uterus, forced to enter the world.’

- Blue Hunger, Viola di Grado

[coffeeflavoredfiction]

The afternoons when he baked were the times we were the closest. Remembering those hours, the smell of caramelized sugar, the warm crust melting in my mouth, his look while he awaited my verdict…

- Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado, translated by Jamie Richards

[dougwallen]

Blue Hunger book review for The Big Issue Australia