A good day for baking

"Once time breaks into a line, the further you go, the more you see that these are specimens of moments. They die the moment I pin them flat with words."

American poet Plath put her head in an oven, ending her story. But where does A-Dan's story begin?

In fourth grade, she was ostracized by the class's "children's club" for being "too friendly with boys" and "too proud"; from birth, her mother spoke every word to her except baby talk; during a game of "Liar" at dinner, her parents, who had never argued, suddenly announced their divorce; during the summer after elementary school, she lay alone on the living room floor waiting for time to pass; in her first year of junior high, living in a girls' dormitory, she witnessed hickeys and sweet scents; at thirteen, she met twenty-five-year-old He Wei-Guang, and his simple question, "What are you thinking?", made her uncontrollably feel love every time she heard it thereafter; then she unexpectedly discovered she had been deceived, and the one who defrauded her was her own...

Is it a memoir, a writing journal, or a novel? A-Dan caught a ghost, placed it on her pen tip, and it could be transmitted. However, any image, sound, or text, any broad sense of recording, is a delusion of making the present eternal. Once the thought of immortality arises, everyone has to go into the oven!

Literary urban legend Li Jia-Ying returns after sixteen years with a new novel following "No Barking," "47 Wandering Seeds," and "Little Bits of Minced Meat." It wraps a coming-of-age story in sharp, lively language, striking at the essence of writing. Through the protagonist A-Dan, who temporarily abandons novel writing for memoirs after growing up, the narrative reflects the contradiction between memory and writing from her fifteen-year-old life. Whether it's the idol worship of youth or the still-vibrant, lovable parts of a world where one feels abandoned, they are all covered and devoured in the act of recording. When memory and words merge, within the layered narrative, those attempted stories remain incredibly compelling and are about to reveal their meaning.