Jeva Lange is a Seattleite majoring in literature at Bennington College. She is a fiction editor for plain china and has been published in Village Voice Media's Seattle Weekly. This spring she will be living in New York City, studying journalism, and writing for NY Daily News' "Page Views."
Neither of my parents finished reading Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. My father abandoned the novel halfway through, pleading boredom, and my mother couldn’t get past the first few chapters…