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esteera's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
as a korean american, managed to put my private thoughts/feelings/emotions that i hadn’t yet placed (or strung into cohesive sentences) into writing. saw pieces of myself written directly in the lines and in between. a must read for all my fellow gyopos.
ps this kept me so engaged i deadass even read the acknowledgments. i literally do not know any other book where i’ve read turned the page to read the acknowledgements.
ps this kept me so engaged i deadass even read the acknowledgments. i literally do not know any other book where i’ve read turned the page to read the acknowledgements.
nonfictionfeminist's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
truongjph's review against another edition
challenging
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inspiring
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tense
medium-paced
4.0
Didn’t think the book I finished on Valentine’s Day would be a memoir from a Korean woman about what it would be like growing up in America as a child of immigrants, but here we are. Lee has a powerful voice and an even more powerful storytelling capability that causes you to reflect on not just your childhood, but your parents’ childhood as well. As a daughter to Vietnamese immigrants, I connected to this memoir more strongly than I thought I would and even realized that some of the things that I thought of to be “okay” is actually not. This memoir shows strong allyship between the minority races, particularly Asian American & Black American, and explains how we should band together to beat white supremacy. It also teaches you to show grace towards yourself and your family, which I definitely needed when reading such an emotional book. Maybe I am a Grace Lee, but I’m glad to see some of my thoughts on paper when I never thought it would be.
annieeeveee11's review
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5.0
I learned so much about the Korean American experience.
As a South Asian, I saw so many parts of myself and the stories of those I work with on a daily basis. I hope everyone reads this and learns so much history I don’t think I ever learned in the US education system.
As a South Asian, I saw so many parts of myself and the stories of those I work with on a daily basis. I hope everyone reads this and learns so much history I don’t think I ever learned in the US education system.