Hailing from the Pinuyumayan people of Chishang, Taitung, up-and-coming aboriginal author Yi-Hang Ma begins a journey of family reunions and separations, departure, and literacy. The homophone Mountain Talk is a “politically incorrect” word heavily saturated with inquiries of identity, space, households, and writing, yet Shandihua questions with a feminine voice, “Where is this label attached? What is hidden beneath?” And the loss of intimate dialogues of love, of lingering, of turmoil. Fettered by identity or gender, whether vibrant or sorrowful, witness Yi-Hang Ma turn the stories of aboriginals, boys, women, and gays into their true voices, allowing their vividness to radiate forth with the force of a canon.