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A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world toward self-discovery, family reckoning, and Asian American defiance
In Chinese, the closest expression to "oh my god" is "wo de ma ya." It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're out of words. But there's no god present in the phrase. Translated literally, it means "oh my mother", the instinctual first person you think of when you're 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, as they adventure into the wide world and sometimes rail against it, as well as against each other.
In Chinese, the closest expression to "oh my god" is "wo de ma ya." It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're out of words. But there's no god present in the phrase. Translated literally, it means "oh my mother", the instinctual first person you think of when you're 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, as they adventure into the wide world and sometimes rail against it, as well as against each other.
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