{"product_id":"ma-and-me-a-memoir-9780374279264","title":"Ma and Me: A Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMa and Me: A Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e by Reang, Putsata. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374279264.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award.\nFinalist for the 2023 Lesbian Memoir\/Biography Lambda Literary Award\n\n\"A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope.\" ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\n\"This openhearted memoir . . . opens the door to include queer descendants of war survivors into the growing American library of love.” ―Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show\n\nWhen Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in her arms, Ma resisted the captain’s orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the childs life. “I had hope, just a little, you were still alive,” Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.\n\nOver the years, Put lived to please Ma and make her proud, hustling to repay her life debt by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, working steadfastly by Ma’s side in the berry fields each summer and eventually building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. But Puts adoration and efforts are no match for Mas expectations. When she comes out to Ma in her twenties, its just a phase. When she fails to bring home a Khmer boyfriend, its because shes not trying hard enough. When, at the age of forty, Put tells Ma she is finally getting married―to a woman―it breaks their bond in two.\n\nIn her startling memoir, Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67661053460533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374279268","price":34.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374279264_27096f3e-dca0-4054-be4b-31d5e68fb1f8.jpg?v=1792185169","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ma-and-me-a-memoir-9780374279264","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}