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I loved all of the food talk in this book and could relate to a lot of it due to my many business trips to Korea. Didn’t realize it was going to be such a raw memoir that included all the details of losing her mother. I could also relate to that from losing my dad, but it was hard to read and, while it showed that all those feelings are universal, it didn’t really help add any new perspective for me.
“How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist.”
Mother and daughter relationships are complex. Michelle reflects on her relationship with her mother; her guilt, her regrets, her struggles with identity, the nit picking, being cared for and caring for, belonging, her grief, and who she is as a daughter and how that translates into her growth after her mother is gone. I really enjoyed her exploration of culture ...more
Mother and daughter relationships are complex. Michelle reflects on her relationship with her mother; her guilt, her regrets, her struggles with identity, the nit picking, being cared for and caring for, belonging, her grief, and who she is as a daughter and how that translates into her growth after her mother is gone. I really enjoyed her exploration of culture ...more
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The writing isn’t terrible. But the people in this story are. I have a lot of trouble with how much she misses her mother when her mother as well as the rest of the family are monsters.
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