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, is a powerful exploration of her own journey of losing her mother to a botched cosmetic surgery when she was a child, and discovering herself and her family through the decades-long grieving process. The book not only delves into Lieu's personal experiences but also shines an important spotlight on the second-generation Vietnamese-American experience, highlighting the nuances of finding belonging across two very different cultures.
“There are definitely nuances in my family's immigration journey, but the main throughline is that we're all children of immigrants,” Lieu told me. “There's the intense financial pressure to save money, always be productive, and make choices not only in the interest of your nuclear family, but your extended family who are in great need of remittances and getting sponsored over.
Directly tied to this physical self-perception, food plays an important role throughout Lieu's memoir, serving as a thread that connects her to her heritage and to her mother. The Vietnamese meals that Susan intricately describes through the book are more than just nourishment; they are rituals of memory and belonging, and they hold both comfort and guilt at different points throughout her life.
In publishing her book, Lieu felt it was important that it reach the people who could most identify with her story and feel seen in her journey. To ensure this, she started the, where the community helped fundraise $52,000 to distribute 1,640 books to fifteen nonprofits in America serving children of immigrants.
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