Where My Heart Settles Down I had to be the

I had to be the perfect boy in my mother’s eye

Originally published in 1986

” — Miti Ruangkritya

I tried to stop viewing them as their child and began to observe them as an equal grownup in order to heal the emotional wounds caused by their divorce and to become reconciled

Where My Heart Settles Down I had to be theDue to my parents divorce when I was a child, my father was a stranger to me for a long time. My impression of my family before breakup, other than very few fragments of childhood memory, is from my birth place, Guantao County, Hebei Province, which my mother sometimes mentioned. My father was denounced as a rightist in 1957 and was sent to Wangqiao Village in Guantao County. He was there for 17 years, during which he was introduced to my mother. In