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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm not a huge fiction person, but this book looked intriguing. And unfortunately, and despite a first few chapters that were compelling, I was only able to get halfway through. I never became particularly interested in any of characters, and especially not Dorothy, who figures prominently in the story (and who repeatedly, annoyingly, calls her daughter Anabel "Babybel"). Chapters bounce back and forth between characters, throughout history, all with various problems. Of course as a reader you're quickly thinking: "These are somehow all going to connect" but then I tired of waiting for it, and I never really liked any of the women enough to keep coming back to their stories. ( ) Dorothy Moy lives in Seattle in 2045 with her partner Louis and daughter Annabel. She's a poet and has dealt with depression and trauma, not all of which is her own. Interspersed with her story is that of Afong Moy, Lai King, Faye, and Zoe, four women ancestors that went back to the first Chinese woman to come to the United States. Utilizing a technique to tap into memories, Dorothy starts seeing these women and understanding how their experience made her into who she is. I started out enjoying the complex storyline and multiple characters, but in the end the book fell a little flat for me. Taking the idea of epigenetics, as well as the history of Afong Moy (a real person) and philosophies of Buddhism, Jamie Ford writes a story he likens to using a crayon box. And I think that is a little how I felt in the end, that he played with a lot of ideas and I didn't always follow everything he was doing. Were the stories of the women in the past their real histories, or some sort of reliving that Dorothy does? Implanted memories? Something else? I did not understand why Dorothy stayed with Louis, who treats her with contempt and questions her every move. And finally, I think I wanted a little more about each of the women, with a clearer end to each of their stories. It takes a while to settle into The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford and its different timelines. It takes a longer while to settle into the fact that this book is more the presentation of an idea than a plot line beginning to end. It is about trauma compounded through generations. It is about efforts to counter that trauma. It is about hope for the future in science. The book leaves me thinking, and I will remember it. Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2023/10/the-many-daughters-of-afong-moy.html Reviewed for NetGalley. 3.5* The concept of epigenetics ("the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work") is explored through the experience of Dorothy Moy, who experiences memories of events in the lives of her female ancestors, including Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman in the United States. Each woman's story is scattered throughout the book, and each is very interesting and extremely well written. However because I listened to the audio version I was not able to fully appreciate the relationships. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy was an incredibly emotional story. Each chapter is dedicated to a different female descendant of Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America in 1834, with bound feet and a slave. She endured horrific pain and trauma and the book brilliantly shows how that intergenerational trauma has been inherited by each of the descendants. Different time periods, different trauma, but all echoing backward to Afong's experience. I was completely fascinated by this concept and it brought up many questions for me around inheritance of not only pain, but also strength, hope and love. Beautifully written and will be a great book club read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us." ??Jenna Bush Hager, Today The New York Times bestselling author of the "mesmerizing and evocative" (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn't the only thing she's inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who's loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate pri No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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