Come Undone – Eddie Huang

Spiffy had canceled my service. I screamed into the banker’s box on my desk. I hadn’t washed a car in god knows how long. I’m sure there are specialized brands and soaps for the health and wellness of your car paint, but every task falls into three buckets in my house: Robitussin, Dawn, or Tilex. I looked at the three options and chose Dawn. Then I grabbed the sponge from my sink and proceeded to wash the car like it was a dish.

Obviously, it would have been nice to have one of those big sponges I’d seen in BangBros car-wash porn, but the sponge from my sink allowed me to be more meticulous. I worked it like a paring knife, getting into all the crevices, squeezing out all the dirt and grime.

When you pay someone else to wash your car, you don’t understand or appreciate how many layers of shit pile up on it. You just pay the sixty dollars, pick up your car, and proceed to drive it until it looks like shit again. After washing it myself, I decided that the least I could do next time I went abroad for the show was to put the car in the goddamn garage. After ninety minutes, the shit was dumb clean.

In all my years paying people to wash my car, it never took this long, but it never came out this well either. I got some towels, dried the car, and admired it for a moment. Then decided I wanted to clean the rest of my house too. I walked back in, cleared out the fridge, took out the trash, vacuumed the floor, broke out the Swiffer, and mopped myself into a frenzy.

Then I sat back down at my desk.

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https://eu- contact.penguin.ie ep_prh_7.3a_156400235_c0_r0 1kitap1.com/en CONTENTS Dedication 1 Dad Shoes 2 Eurasian Swing 3 Amangiri 4 Genuinely Repulsed 5 Bummed Out 6 Delayed Pleasure 7 Sand Dabs 8 Big Stupid 9 Email 10 Mom 11 Tower Down 12 Come Undone 13 Wedding 14 Banker’s Box Acknowledgments About the Author 1kitap1.com/en To Natashia, who made me curious again 1kitap1.com/en 1 DAD SHOES “Do you want to have children,” she said with just a hint of a Beijing accent. There was no question mark because it wasn’t a question.

And she was right not to ask: I was a thirty-eight-year-old Asian American man; it was unquestionably time for me to have children. “Do you want to order entrées first?” I joked. “You order. Be a man.” Camantha was her name. Pronounced like “Samantha,” she told me. “But with C, so spicy.” I got set up with her through Benicio, a contemporary-art dealer who represented some artists from her family’s gallery in Beijing. Part of Benicio’s service to the family was finding Camantha a suitable partner in L.A., where they’d relocated her.

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