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The Missing Zero: My Mother's Four-Hundred Dollar Feast

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The Missing Zero: My Mother's Four-Hundred Dollar Feast is a novel in English. Chapter 1 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

Chloe has always quietly covered the difference whenever her mother's transfers fall short, blaming it on bad eyesight and a missing zero. When her sister Mia accuses her of pocketing money, her mother smiles and says nothing, and Chloe's heart goes cold.

Asked to book a four-thousand-dollar New Year's Eve dinner, Chloe accepts the transfer and orders a four-hundred-dollar meal instead. At the table, the relatives find only six dishes, and Mia publicly accuses Chloe of skimming. Chloe shows the transfer record: only four hundred dollars arrived. Her mother blames her eyesight, then sends the rest, but Mia demands a full accounting of years of supposed subsidies, and the relatives take her side.

As her mother's face pales and she rises to find a waiter, Chloe must decide whether to keep subsidizing a family that calls her a thief.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

My mom loves asking me to buy things for her.

But she has "bad eyesight," so when she transfers me the money, she always misses a zero.

I never really cared and just quietly made up the difference myself every time.

Until my sister started acting passive-aggressive in front of me:

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Contents

Chapter 1 is on this page. Chapters marked with a lock continue in the official app.

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Which chapters of The Missing Zero: My Mother's Four-Hundred Dollar Feast are free?

Chapter 1 is free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 2 the book continues in the official app.

Where do I keep reading The Missing Zero: My Mother's Four-Hundred Dollar Feast after chapter 1?

In the official app. Install it, enter code 593141, and the book opens where this preview stops — chapter 2.

What is The Missing Zero: My Mother's Four-Hundred Dollar Feast about?

Chloe has always quietly covered the difference whenever her mother's transfers fall short, blaming it on bad eyesight and a missing zero. When her sister Mia accuses her of pocketing money, her mother smiles and says nothing, and Chloe's heart goes cold.

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