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Most people think I’m exaggerating at first when I talk about the
Chinese Squawking Chicken. But once they actually spend some time with
her, they understand. They get it. Right away. She’s Chinese, she
squawks like a chicken, she is totally nuts, and I am totally dependent
on her. When Elaine Lui was growing up, her mother told her, “Why do you
need to prepare for the good things that happen? They’re good. They
won’t hurt you. My job is to prepare you for the hard times, and teach
you how to avoid them, whenever possible.” Neither traditionally Eastern
nor conventionally Western, the Squawking Chicken raised her daughter
drawing on Chinese fortune-telling, feng shui blackmail, good
old-fashioned ghost stories, and shame and embarrassment in equal
measure. And despite years of chafing against her mother’s parenting
style, Elaine came to recognize the hidden wisdom—and immeasurable
value—in her rather unorthodox upbringing. Listen to the Squawking
Chicken lays bare the playbook of unusual advice and warnings used to
teach Elaine about hard work (“Miss Hong Kong is a whore”), humility (“I
should have given birth to a piece of barbecue pork”), love and
friendship, family loyalty (“Where’s my money?”), style and deportment
(“Don’t be low classy”), finding one’s own voice (“Walk like an
elephant, squawk like a chicken”) among other essentials. Along the way,
Elaine poignantly reveals how her mother earned the nickname “Tsiahng
Gai” or “squawking chicken” growing up in Hong Kong, enduring and rising
from the ashes of her own hard times. Listen to the Squawking Chicken
is a loving mother-daughter memoir that will have readers laughing out
loud, gasping in shock, and reconsidering the honesty and guts it takes
to be a parent.