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megaleong 's review for:
Real Americans
by Rachel Khong
"An American expression that had always been strange to me was ‘build a life.’ My life had not been built. It wasn't a piece-by-piece assembly, following a blueprint. Nothing fit together. It wasn't a structure but a heap.
It had been our dream, Otto's and mine: to give our children the best possible futures. But it was a mis-take, believing you could choose for someone else, no matter how well intentioned you might be. And what did we choose, really? We were told what to want:
Propaganda was universal. Especially in this country, where the propaganda was that there was none-we were free. But were we? When we were made to value certain lives more than others; when we were made, relentlessly, to want more? What if I had seen through it? What if I had understood that I already had enough?"
what a beautiful and heartbreaking generational story about a chinese american family on what it truly means to be a "real" american, what it means to "achieve the american dream" as an immigrant. i loved the difficult discussions of brokenness/flaws of immigrant families, racism, sexism weaved into multiculturalism, capitalism, & science (and ofc all the ethics involved in advancements in science). hands down, one of my favorite reads this year
It had been our dream, Otto's and mine: to give our children the best possible futures. But it was a mis-take, believing you could choose for someone else, no matter how well intentioned you might be. And what did we choose, really? We were told what to want:
Propaganda was universal. Especially in this country, where the propaganda was that there was none-we were free. But were we? When we were made to value certain lives more than others; when we were made, relentlessly, to want more? What if I had seen through it? What if I had understood that I already had enough?"
what a beautiful and heartbreaking generational story about a chinese american family on what it truly means to be a "real" american, what it means to "achieve the american dream" as an immigrant. i loved the difficult discussions of brokenness/flaws of immigrant families, racism, sexism weaved into multiculturalism, capitalism, & science (and ofc all the ethics involved in advancements in science). hands down, one of my favorite reads this year