{"id":49413,"date":"2022-05-30T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49413"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:42:53","slug":"the-many-daughters-of-afong-moy-by-jamie-ford-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-many-daughters-of-afong-moy-by-jamie-ford-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49422\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy-Jamie-Ford-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy-Jamie-Ford-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy-Jamie-Ford-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Jamie Ford (<em>Love and Other Consolation Prizes<\/em>, 2017) showcases \u201ctransgenerational epigenetic inheritance\u201d \u2013 inheriting trauma through generations \u2013 in another multi-temporal narrative spanning two-and-a-half centuries across the globe. Ford deftly reveals seven women\u2019s lives, beginning with progenitor Afong, \u201cthe first Chinese woman to set foot on American soil.\u201d The name and epithet are actual history, which Ford embellishes with a poignant past and intriguing descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Child bride to a dead man, Afong is banished to the New World, where she disappears in 1836. Her legacy continues through Lai King, returned alone to China in 1892 to save her from certain plague death in San Francisco; nurse Faye in Kunming, who saves an American pilot in 1942; student Zoe at a progressive British school in 1927; feminist dating-app creator Greta in 2014. In 2045, battling personal crises, poet Dorothy becomes their epigenetic connector; by 2086, daughter Annabel will be the beneficiary of Dorothy\u2019s transformative quest.<\/p>\n<p>While loneliness, suffering, and violence haunt throughout, Ford\u2019s revisionist penultimate chapter, \u201cEchoes,\u201d feels less empowering than uncomfortably forced. That said, Ford fans are unlikely to be disappointed, his writing remains reliably immersive and enlightening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy-\/pid=9758059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy-\/pid=9758059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes, 2017) showcases \u201ctransgenerational epigenetic inheritance\u201d \u2013 inheriting trauma through generations \u2013 in another multi-temporal narrative spanning two-and-a-half centuries across the globe. Ford deftly reveals seven women\u2019s lives, beginning with progenitor Afong, \u201cthe first Chinese woman to set foot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,6,197,6535],"tags":[84,6608,6668,58,59,10,149,36,24,51,25,1017,13,10292,129,39,29],"class_list":["post-49413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-repost","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-gender-inequality","tag-girl-power","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-jamie-ford","tag-love","tag-many-daughters-of-afong-moy","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-many-daughters-of-afong-moy-by-jamie-ford-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes, 2017) showcases \u201ctransgenerational epigenetic inheritance\u201d \u2013 inheriting trauma through generations \u2013 in another multi-temporal narrative spanning two-and-a-half centuries across the globe. 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