Connie Wang

A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, & Asian American defiance 
In Chinese, the closest expression to “oh my god” is “wo de ma ya.” It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means “oh my mother”—the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. 

In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn & charismatic mother Qing Li through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together, venturing into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other. 

A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Oh My Mother!

“After all, in the vastness and pastness of human history, one of the few universal truths that everyone has a mom, and everyone feels some sort of way about her.” 

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