What Wang does remarkably well in her memoir is capture her childhood feelings and experiences with such vividness - both the very mundane (wanting a Tamogotchi because all her classmates had one) to the specific traumas of life as an undocumented immigrant in America. It was harrowing to read at times, yet also hopeful (her Ma Ma is a true hero). I think she really honored her little self that she had spent so many years trying to bury with this.