Phil in SF quoted The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a …
Content warning gross food and sex reference
There on my plate reclined my beloved, forlorn odalisque, marked by my hand, and when my mother said to help myself I seized it instantly with my chopsticks to forestall any chance of my mother doing so.
— The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (20%)
new vocabulary: odalisque
A female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the sultan of Turkey
an exotic, sexually attractive woman
(i just got to the squid part. yeccchh.)