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    A Year in Reading: Jean Chen Ho

    by Jean Chen Ho Dec 17, 2020 4 minutes

    I started this year with a re-reading of by . I’d landed back in LA at 6:30am on December 31 after a three-week trip to visit family in Taiwan. Jetlagged to hell, I woke up again at 3am and couldn’t fall back asleep so I drove to the Astro Diner down the street from me in Los Feliz. It’s one of those 24-hour joints with mauve swivel stools and walnut formica counters, Heinz ketchup and Tapatío next to the salt and pepper, tufted vinyl booths under large windows with snowflake decals stuck on the glass. I ordered chicken and waffles, a cup of hot water with lemon, and I read —“Sth, I know that woman” one of the greatest opening lines in a novel—meeting Violet

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