"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints of Cathy Park Hong's hit essay collection, Minor Feelings." --Oprah Daily A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a 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. 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. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it--as well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places they've gone and the things they've done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging--once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation--we can experience something almost like freedom.

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Biographies & Memoirs

Wang, Connie

Community & Culture

VIKING

Fort Bliss, Texas is not only one of the most important military installations in the continental U.S., but it is also one of the most haunted. Inside these pages are stories of various spirits still inhabiting its halls and grounds.

Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Ft. Bliss, Texas

History

Hudnall, Ken

Americas

Omega-press

Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of El Paso del Norte

Book by Hudnall, Ken, Wang, Connie

Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of El Paso Del Norte

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