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A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and 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 and 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. This brilliantly original work of feminism and flaw is Eat, Pray, Love for a new generation�if our real-life heroine had Minor Feelings and Trick Mirror in her suitcase and her always endearing, occasionally infuriating mother in the copilot seat; and if, instead of finding themselves through pasta and yoga, this iconic mother-daughter duo attended a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas, experimented with edibles in Amsterdam, and flip-flopped through Versailles, wondering where their next trip would lead.