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Violet gets desperate for more poems. This makes no sense. Men do not think women are sexy for reading poems.
Anyway Violet falls in love with Perpetual and agrees to marry him. He lives in some tiny shit village hundreds of miles inland. Violet agrees to go there even though Perpetual will not accompany her. She even hands over her jewelry to Perpetual for some ridiculous reason. Violet is a total fool.
Magic Gourd goes with Violet. She is too old to be a whore so just hangs around Violet. When they get to Perpetual's tiny village, they find that Perpetual is not only married but has two wives. Violet will be wife #3, the lowest ranking wife. This upsets Violet who did not know that Perpetual was married. Azure is the senior wife and is a real bitch, but Pomelo, wife #2, becomes her friend.
Click here to see the rest of this reviewFor some reason I can't quite understand, Violet feels trapped in this remote village, as if she can't simply walk out and leave. The book doesn't clearly say why, but makes out that the village is so remote that Violet can't figure a way out, which makes no sense since she clearly arrived there somehow. But the book acts like Violet is trapped in the village and doesn't know how to escape.
When Perpetual arrives, he becomes charming and tells Violet she will be wife #1--of the north wing of his house, heh heh. Then he says weird sexy things like "See what you do to me? My sword is sharp. It's already risen out of its scabbard and wants to drive its mighty self all the way inside you... turn around and lean against the boulder with your bottom facing me. I'll enter you from behind. Are you damp yet?"
Violet, turned off by his lies, pretended to have a bloody v_gina to keep Perpetual away.
But when they eventually did have sex Perpetual was mean, saying things like "Open wider, you whore!" and "Faster, you slimy bitch cunt!" He gets enraged when he suspects Violet is thinking about Edward, her previous husband. Then Perpetual started to beat Violet. Wack! Wack! Wack! Then he boned her. Squish! Squish! Squish! Then he beat her. Wack! Wack! Wack! Then he boned her. Squish! Squish! Squish! You get the idea.
Violet hates Perpetual so much that she vomits after he bones her. Pomelo, wife #2, tells Violet of a hidden path in the mountains that leads to another town. The two decide to escape, along with Magic Gourd. Pomelo can't walk far because her feet were bound. About halfway up the mountain she stops. They see Perpetual pursuing them. Pomelo pushes a boulder down the hill, and Perpetual gets flattened. At that moment, he is no longer Perpetual, heh heh.
They find a hiding place in the mountain where Perpetual kept their jewelry. Then they make their way to the next town and eventually Violet gets back to Shanghai with Magic G.
The story suddenly jumps back into the past to Lulu's childhood; Lulu, or Lucia, is the mother of Violet. When Lucia was a child in San Francisco, she was a real slut too. She was born with 12 fingers; her parents removed two of them so she could play the piano better, heh heh. By the way, maybe you think I'm joking, but this is exactly what is said in the book.
Lucia worried from this that her parents would cut off other body parts they didn't like, heh heh.
Lucia was distressed to learn that her mom and dad didn't have sex. Her Dad instead boned other women who wrote him letters calling him the "Colossus of Cocks". Lucia was upset that she had a Dad who was a Colossus of Cocks. She figured that if her Dad could bone a lot of other women, that she was given free license to be a whore too. She got one young guy to bone her. She was surprised to find that his p_nis was "beefy, veined, and oddly helpless, like a blind hairless rodent wearing a milk filled breast." This is one of my favorite lines of the book!!!!
But when guy #1 boned her, he spurted out onto her thigh. When he tried again, the same thing happened. He had bad aim, heh heh. So Lucia enlisted a half dozen other guys to bone her, but she still craved more sex with more men.
Then Lu Shing came by, a painter from China who was staying with her parents. Lucia seduced him and he boned her, in a very weird way: "He drew his queue down my belly... then slipped into me in a forbidden rhythm." What? A queue? Forbidden rhythm? This is a description of sex? Very weird.
Then, while he was boning her, Lu started to sing a song about boats. And docks. And cocks. This excited Lucia and she fell in love with him. When Lu climaxed, he screamed "Fuck your cunt!!!!" at the top of his lungs in Chinese. Lucia thought this was a little odd, but still appealing.
Lu tells Lucia that he is engaged to be married in China and can't get out of it. But Lucia discovers she is pregnant. She resolves to follow Lu to China even though Lu told her quite clearly that he has to marry the other girl and she would not be able to live with him.
Lucia tells her parents about her pregnancy. Lu apologizes for boning and impregnating their daughter. Heh heh heh heh. Sorry, couldn't stop laughing again.
Lucia reveals to her mother that her father has been boning all kinds of women so she feels free to be a real slut herself. Her parents refuse to talk to her and Lucia gets on a boat for China with Lu.
When they get to China, Lu goes off with his family and leaves Lucia at the dock. Later he arranges for an apartment with a homosexual man named Danner. He sees Lucia from time to time but stays with his new wife. This enrages Lucia even though she was told quite clearly that this is what would happen. What a bitch.
Lucia gives birth to Violet. Lu offers to eventually marry Lucia and make her his second wife. Heh heh heh. He says it will help if Lucia gives birth to a boy.
