Where Are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou
A sharp, empathetic family saga that traces multiple generations of a Taiwanese immigrant family and their American-born descendants as they navigate migration, memory, and the daily erasures of assimilation. Through intimate domestic scenes, wry humor, and piercing social observation, it examines how language, food, storytelling, and casual xenophobia shape identity and belonging, asking what it means to be repeatedly asked "where are you really from" and how families carry—and remake—their histories in a new country.
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- Published
- 2025
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 352
- Original Language
- English
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