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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://twitter.com/rafiazakaria/status/1446942572677672960?s=20

Apparently this write Rafia Zakaria has completely new "evidence" (or tea) that involves both parties...[/quote]

Ooh thanks for this (hint of) tea. She’s posting it only if people pay to subscribe later tonight and suggests it paints SL in a negative light.  We’ll see![/quote]

Hard to imagine what else could come out that paints Sonya in an even worse light...[/quote]

Uncool that this lady (Rafia) is trying to profit off this. Looks really tacky.[/quote]

Anyone pay for this? I am dying to know because I went too far down this rabbit hole but I draw the line at paying to read more.[/quote]

It doesn't seem to be behind a paywall anymore. It's about the writer Celeste Ng. It looks like she was initially heavily inspired by a real Chinese woman's life for the plot of Little Fires Everywhere.

"Bei Bei Chow’s story, framed in Ng’s gripping fiction, is close to an actual one that took place in Indiana, a few hours’ drive away from Cleveland and Shaker Heights. In that case, a young Chinese immigrant, Bei Bei Shuai, was charged with murdering her newborn baby in March 2011. Shuai, who had fallen in love with a Chinese man who left her when she became pregnant, had tried to kill herself by ingesting rat poison. While Shuai survived, the baby died two days after it was born. Shuai became the first woman to be prosecuted for a suicide attempt, under Indiana’s feticide statute, originally enacted to protect women and their children from third parties such as abusive boyfriends and husbands."[/quote]

I wonder how Be Bei Shuai would feel knowing her tragic circumstances inspired this book. Looking at it, it seems Celeste Ng has done a much better job at taking the initial nugget of inspiration and turning it into a new, fully-formed thing that stands on its own (possibly not being inspired by malice and the desire to mock someone for your friends' amusement makes you much better at doing this.) Still, it's interesting that a poor Chinese immigrant is in a very similar position to Dawn Dorland, at the hands of writers from the same group of friends/colleagues, and in Bei Bei Shuai's case has no avenue to fully express how she may or may not feel about this.[/quote]

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