Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters

ISBN: 0061132225

Author: Choi, Annie

Condition: New

Mining the age-old tensions between mothers and daughters, Chois strong debut is an uproariously funny memoir of growing up with her Korean American family in Los Angeles.... [T]hese are indelible, poignant, and often riotously funny scenes of a daughters frustrations and indestructible love. - BooklistA humorous story about the relationship between a first generation Korean-American and her parents, an alternately funny and poignant narrative showing how it feels to have one foot firmly planted on each side of the Pacific Ocean.Annie Chois very Korean mother never stopped annoying her thoroughly Americanized daughter. Growing up near Los Angeles, Annie was continually exasperated by both her mothers typical Korean harangues-you must get all As and attend Harvard-and non-so-typical eccentricities: stuffing the house with tacky Pope paraphernalia.But when Annies mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, the uneasy relationship between mother and daughter changes. Chois witty and accessible prose will appeal to any daughter of immigrants, and to anyone whos had a challenging relationship with their mother.