If there is one thing I could tell my friends from home about me that would surprise them the most, it would be that I was on the chess team for all seven years of middle and high school.
My gaze fell onto a long table, just like all of the others in Taibesi Market, lined with piles on plates of plump and perky produce: tomatoes, limes, onions, bulbs of garlic, knotted knuckles of ginger…