Hyeseung Song Docile review, recensie en informatie memoirs of a not-so-perfect Asian girl, geschreven door de Koreaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 16 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de memoir van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en schilder van Koreaanse afkomst Hyeseung Song. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijkgbaar of aangekondigd.
Hyeseung Song Docile Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl review en recensie
- “Docile is the rarest of things: a scorchingly honest, beautiful, hugely evocative memoir that’s also a proper pageturner: I read it breathlessly in a single sitting, transported and deeply moved. It’s at one and the same time the story of a life and a meditation on identity, family, trauma, illness, and the nature of love, art, and success. It’s wonderful.” (Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk)
- “Choosing to live requires a crucial journey to discovering her true, unadorned self. Song’s literary self-portrait is formidable testimony to claiming her powerful artistry.” (Booklist)
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
- Auteur: Hyeseung Song (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 16 juli 2024
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99 / $29.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir van Hyeseung Song
A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family’s fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: “Can she speak English?”
Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she internalizes the model minority myth as well as her beloved mother’s dreams to see her on a secure path. Song meets these expectations by attending the best Ivy League universities in the country. But when she wavers, in search of an artistic life on her own terms, her mother warns, “Happiness is what unexceptional people tell themselves when they don’t have the talent and drive to go after real success.” Years of self-erasure take a toll and Song experiences recurring episodes of depression and mania. A thought repeats: I want to die. I want to die. Song enters a psychiatric hospital where she meets patients with similar struggles. So begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything.
Unflinching and lyrical, Docile is one woman’s story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.
Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American writer and painter. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
