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A childless woman kneads dough and makes noodles, the first dish her stepmother ever cooked for her, almost three decades ago. The stepmother, herself turned out because she could bear no children, later married a man who already had children of his own, and in all those years neither he nor they treated her as one of the family. Step by step, from flour to the finished noodles in their broth, the narrator thinks back over the years and comes to see how lonely and hard her stepmother's life has been, treating the slow work of the dough almost as a debt she owes.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Changbi

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788936437282 (original)