A Fortune-Teller Saw My Future in My Eyebrows

One summer, I received a message from a friend who was visiting her hometown in China. We’d met and grown close in graduate school, so I was excited to hear from her. “I showed your photograph to a face reader. He’s famous in the village,” she said. I felt somewhat ill at ease that she’d taken the liberty to show my picture to a stranger, though I was nevertheless intrigued. Having been raised in Vietnam, where ghosts, spirits, and past lives are part of dinner-table conversations, I wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with the concept of facial reading, in which the features… Read Full Article