The Ultimate Secret Of Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter By Lan Cao
Book Excerpt :
A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughterAfter more than forty years in the United States, Lan Cao still feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, one which she came to as a thirteen-year old refugee. And after sixteen years of being a mother, she still ventures through motherhood as if it is a foreign landscape. In this lyrical memoir, Lan explores these two defining experiences of her life with the help of her fierce, independently-minded daughter, Harlan Margaret Van Cao.In chapters that both reflect and refract her mother's narrative, Harlan describes the rites of passage of childhood and adolescence, as they are filtered through the aftereffects of her family's history of war, tragedy, and migration. Lan responds in turn, trying to understand her American daughter through the lens of her own battles with culture clash and bullying. In this unique format of alternating storytelling, their
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