I read and loved Lisa Ko’s new book, Memory Piece, back in January, so I was excited to try her debut. I found it a bit more difficult to get into than Memory Piece, which absorbed me right away. However, I persevered and eventually did get invested in Deming and Polly’s stories! There’s so much to get your teeth into here: motherhood, ambition, immigration, friendship, addiction, deportation, adoption, I genuinely felt emotionally wrought out by the end of it.