![]() ![]() ![]() I could recommend a number of books with this format ( Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang, Hysterical by Elissa Bassist) and plan to read several more (next on the list are Sabrina Imbler’s How Far the Light Reaches and Meghan O’Gieblyn’s God Human Animal Machine), because I often find these works to be both moving and persuasive, able to convey difficult personal stories alongside information that will allow readers to understand a wider societal context. What My Bones Know is a memoir comprising one of my new favorite subgenres: creative nonfiction that combines research with personal narrative, incorporating scientific, historical, and/or cultural context into a telling of deep emotional truths. Still, I believe anyone - though especially any children of Asian immigrants, and perhaps immigrants more broadly - could benefit from reading this book. ![]() Having much of my background in common with Stephanie Foo, I may be a biased observer here. ![]()
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