The Five Dollar Debt
Language: en
My mother killed herself over five dollars. All because she used five dollars to buy me a notebook for school. My father beat her bloody in front of hundreds of people at the farmers' market. Never mind that the family's main income came from my mother waking up before dawn to wholesale vegetables at that very market. In the end, my mother borrowed five dollars from Mrs. Song at the next stall to buy me the notebook. That night, my mother hanged herself. My father said I drove her to suicide. "Just three notebooks," he said. "The teacher wouldn't have killed you for not doing…