## Metadata - Author: [[Natasha Pulley]] - Full Title: The Mars House - Category: #books ## Highlights - The facility was brand new, so they were all Mandarin. No English or Russian translations. After his extra two weeks of lessons, he was starting to see that English gave things a patina of shabbiness. It was elderly and cheap, and only people’s grandparents spoke it exclusively, and so it came with a sort of vestigial memory-smell of mothballs. ([Location 1123](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CKHR1HH3&location=1123))