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Oh My Mother!: A Memoir In Nine Adventures
Viking
ISBN13:
9780593490921
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Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . Its like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints of Cathy Park Hongs hit essay collection, Minor Feelings. Oprah Daily Equally funny and heartbreaking, luminous and illuminating, Oh My Mother! is a family road trip I wish would never end. John Hodgman, author of Vacationland A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. Its an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when youre out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my motherthe instinctual first person you think of when youre on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the oh my god moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against itas well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places theyve gone and the things theyve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belongingonce we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nationwe can experience something almost like freedom.
- | Author: Connie Wang
- | Publisher: Viking
- | Publication Date: May 09, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0593490924
- | ISBN-13: 9780593490921
- Author:
- Connie Wang
- Publisher:
- Viking
- Publication Date:
- May 09, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0593490924
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593490921