The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford [in Booklist]
30 May, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost
Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes, 2017) showcases “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” – inheriting trauma through generations – in another multi-temporal narrative spanning two-and-a-half centuries across the globe. Ford deftly reveals seven women’s lives, beginning with progenitor Afong, “the first Chinese woman to set foot...