Lowest Common Denominator Melanie Cheng Tired of white people thinking

Tired of white people thinking they're better than her

romantic love and familial obligation

Drawing from her own experiences and seventeen years teaching development

Forced to work together through grueling shifts and sleepless nights

This collection is divided into seven sections

Lowest Common Denominator Melanie Cheng Tired of white people thinkingFor readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming of age novel by the Finlandia prize winning author of The Red Book of Farewells Writing in the wake of her father's death, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio's autofictional novel (translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg) transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up