Interesting collection of short stories, focusing on Hong Kong before and during the Chinese revolution. My favourite parts of the book was seeing snippets of conservative family values and patriarchy presented from the perspective of upper class, and occasionally working class perspectives. Generally love stories or settling for less stories, some featuring incel like protagonists, others romance.

My favourite story was called sealed off which tells snippets of stories from a bunch of bus riders in the city during rush hour and a romance inspired by a traffic jam.

Definitely I imagine her writings have more depth and meaning to people who live in Hong Kong or the Diaspora, but as an outsider I found it an interesting read.