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For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a ';scorchingly honesthugely evocative memoir' (Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H Is for Hawk) about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than love. When the family's fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: ';Can she speak English?'

Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she int

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      Publisher Simon & Schuster
      Published 7/16/2024
      ISBN-13 9781668003664
      978-1668003664
      ISBN-10 166800366X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a ';scorchingly honesthugely evocative memoir' (Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H Is for Hawk) about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

      A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than love. When the family's fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: ';Can she speak English?'

      Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she int

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