
ABC: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
Slate Books
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I Loved the Essayed the Girl
I loved reading her about her relationship to her parents. I thought that was really a she wai,. hard to write about one's parents, for i and she did it with, she really turned them into characters. She also has an essay, a d as in, that talks about kind ofthe estrangement from yourself that you can experience when people call you the wrong name. We start to see why it's so important for her to talk about her parents in the way she does. understanding their experience, their particularities is so central to making sense of her own complex and fraught place in the world.
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