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This book feels like the cryptic book version of The Prom

“‘The world our parents came from is not home to us. You can’t blame yourself for not missing something you never really knew.’”
Oof!

I think I’m in love with this book. It hits a lot of my likes: good food, a complex relationship with heritage, strained mother-child dynamics. Damn. It’s like this book is my brain

Oof the whole parent only talking to you about school thing hits hard for me. Sincerely, a former gifted kid

“In America, our taste buds were somehow deficient. And I supposed we were, too.”
Oof!

When did this book go from 0 to 60?

Also the washing machine death was brutal

Wow this book is spell binding. The way Bob just pulls you in? The methods he uses are so like therapy but also not quite there. It’s eerie

Why is it to dramatic? She and him are just friends right now

Why don’t they have Effie text a staff member when they come back so they can unlock the doors when she leaves and lock them until she comes back?

30 minutes for lunch??? And you’re expected to go out, get food, and come back? And eat?? Wtf

Is Prospect this book’s equivalent of The New School?

This book is a giant life lesson in why it’s very very hard to love someone with different political views than you. Especially now when that means they might love you but not want you to have rights

The author is clearly on the same side of the internet as me. I recognize all the nods to real influencers and scandals

Why are they messaging on company platforms? Leave no receipts!!

She’s 25???

Knowing the US parental leave, Ember will be interim for a few months only

I feel like an accountant at a tech company should be paid more than 50K

The parents are literally so frustrating and inept

Fabrizio si!

The 48 month voucher is so unreasonable. Maybe a year at most

All of the Sheila voiceovers remind me of Next to Normal

Are you a tumblr or a Reddit person? I personally am on Reddit. Never got into tumblr no matter how hard I tried

I think the explanation is easier than she thinks. “Hi my aunt is homophobic, and although you might not/are not queer, she’ll judge you, and you don’t deserve to be discriminated against.”

All cats have lime 7 different names. It’s just a cat thing

lol I didn’t realize this book is about Mormons

“Maybe the language where I live is not the end point but an interval - a rest stop on the way home.”

“I am the eternal daughter, destined to go back and forth between my husband in California and my parents in Taiwan, between the life consciously chosen and the collective unconscious that claims me, an unbreakable thread connecting me to my ancestors. I live in a constant state of longing to be reunited with Demeter-my mother, motherland, mother tongue. My life is defined by this rupture.”

“I have bizarre sensation of going forward in linear time yet backward in consciousness, reaching for a distant, earlier version of myself that once felt at home here.”

It’s interesting that there are a few Asian American memoirs whose titles are focused not on the author but their parents. “Manicurist’s Daughter”, “Translator’s Daughter”.

“I wasn’t used to hearing my parents fight; when they did it was usually in Taiwanese. I wondered if they were speaking English only because I was there.”
The whole switch to the commonly understood language in the group is too real