Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations.Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”-Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me*Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize*The most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement-a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women’s vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive. Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privileged children raised to be ambitious, dutiful, and virtuous.She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books, devouring classic works-Proust, Gabriel García Márquez, the very best Chinese writers.Yet, it is their lack of real-world education tha