The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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by Ken Liu
Started reading October 29, 2020
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Perhaps it is the dream of every parent to keep their child in that brief period between helpless dependence and separate selfhood, when the parent is seen as perfect, faultless. It is a dream of control and mastery disguised as love, the dream that Lear had about Cordelia.