"With tenacity, wit, and fierce love, Susan Lieu reconstructs the mother she lost – from memory, through detective work, by spirit conjuring…defying all obstacles and naysayers. A high octane roller coaster to healing."──Thi Bui, author of The Best We Could Do, an American Book Award winner and an Eisner Award finalist
"The quintessential story of an immigrant's kid―filled to the brim with heartache and hope."──Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner
“Lieu is a dynamo, spouting humor, profanity and wisdom in the same breath.”──The LA Times
“Lieu’s candor about her mother’s faults and righteous anger at the surgeon who killed her set this apart from similar fare. It’s a generous portrait of grief that will touch those who’ve struggled with loss.….a stirring debut.”──Publishers Weekly
“An intimate Asian American memoir about family, memory, and grief.”──Kirkus