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My Mother and Me - Asymptote

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The summer I graduated from college, I read Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for the first time. My mother did the same. She did so because, throughout the entire summer, I would spend countless hours on our sofa in Seoul reading this nine-hundred-page tome as if it were a source of

My Mother and Me Jimin Kang Artwork by Lu Liu The summer I graduated from college, I read Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for the first time. My mother did the same. She did so because, throughout the entire summer, I would spend countless hours on our sofa in Seoul reading this nine-hundred-page tome as if it were a source of sustenance she could not provide me. Why do you like this book so much? she asked me one day, in the Korean that we share. And I, her Spanish-speaking daughter who was reading a translation in English, replied: Because Don Quixote makes me reflect on a kind of fa

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