Oh My Mother A Memoir In Nine Adventures Connie Wang by Connie Wang 9780593490921, 0593490924 instant download after payment.

In Chinese, the closest expression to “oh my god” is “wo de ma ya.” It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means “oh my mother”—the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. 

In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn & charismatic mother Qing Li through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together, venturing into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other. 

This brilliantly original work of feminism & flaw is Eat, Pray, Love for a new generation—if our real-life heroine had Minor Feelings & Trick Mirror in her suitcase & her always endearing, occasionally infuriating mother in the copilot seat; & if, instead of finding themselves through pasta & yoga, this iconic mother-daughter duo attended a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas, experimented with edibles in Amsterdam, & flip-flopped through Versailles, wondering where their next trip would lead.

There are hijinks, capers, & adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, & discovery. In telling these stories about the places they’ve gone & the things they’ve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging—once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation—we can experience something almost like freedom.

Connie Wang is a journalist, writer, & editor. Previously she led Refinery29's editorial team as executive editor, where she explored how race & status inform our culture & politics.…