I loved this book so much. It's full of complicated mother daughter relationships, grief, joy, and love. Being a mixed Asian woman myself, I found myself completely pulled into the complex relationship with your heritage and therefore your own family. It's a painful and confusing space but it's full of love, longing, and a full heart.

This book is a classic delight that is a road trip where the journey is about so much more than the destination. A story where you realize along the way why you're on the road in the first place. It's the long car ride where you start to understand your mother in ways that you never understood her before. The realization that your mother is probably pulled to and from her culture just as much as you are. This book is the moment we realize that we aren't so different after all.

This story is absolutely beautiful and I'm so honored to have been able to read it, and so thankful that it exists. It's so infrequent we get stories by mixed authors where the characters are explicitly mixed. It's diaspora multiplied by two and this journey is one we all take, whether we're on the way to Graceland or just adulthood. Thank you, Kristen Mei Chase for this story.

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