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Fruit Peeling Anxieties

Fearing the fruit cutting expectations of Korean mother-in-laws

By Dami Lee
Dami Lee
Essays, Marginalia | Fruit
December 13, 2019

Dami Lee is the author of Be Everything At Once, and writes about tech, artists and creators for The Verge. She draws the twice-weekly series As Per Usual for WEBTOON, and has drawn comics for the LA Times, The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and premium mustard brands.

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Pipa
A golden teardrop in the making. The skin stretched pale and translucent, leaving the flesh to its own devices in an increasingly dangerous season. The fruit will not travel far.
Apples for Equines
The green fruit would collect on the ground before we threw them to be devoured with the fervor we reserved for galas and granny smiths.
Lemon Juice
To fix myself, it seems, is to become a ghost of myself.