One day after coming home from a dinner at a local restaurant, Hongmei receives an e-mail from a stranger in which they describe every little detail of this outing: her outfit, behavior, chosen table, atmosphere… Instead of calling the police, Hongmei, bored of her marriage, writes back. She quickly falls into a trap waiting for new messages from “the secret talker” and tells them more about herself than she has ever told anybody.
The Secret Talker is a short thriller that analyzes the history of an unfulfilling marriage, focusing on psychological aspects of the couple who, despite having lived together for a while, can’t communicate What’s interesting, this book is a unique example of a reversed immigrant story, written for readers living in China for whom California, where the action takes place, is a distant, foreign country.
