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Northern Girls: Chapter 1
Sample translated by Eric Abrahamsen , from the book Bei Mei.
This is Qian Xiao Hong, from Hunan.
Five foot plus, short wavy hair, roundish face – she’s the very image of respectability, the type who’ll marry a man and bear his children and never put a foot out of line.
Unfortunately for Hong, however, her bosom is too big. She didn’t do it on purpose, but all the same it has banished her from respectability with no room for appeal, drawing the kind of gossip usually reserved for merry widows.