#The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

[jeanmoreaux]

— jamie ford, from the many daughters of afong moy

#having thoughts about this…. been thinking about it on and off again since finishing the book #something something love as an act of creation between two people with the potential for lethal hurt & mutual destruction #as well the potential to be a source of experiencing and enabling self-realisation something #poetry #quote #jamie ford #the many daughters of afong moy #on love #on loving #on love as violence #love as violence #love as a destructive force

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I rated every book I read in March, thought I might share 🪻

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - 6/10

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 10/10

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler - 2/10

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - 8/10

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center - 2/10

Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi - 7/10

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford - 8/10

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan - 4/10

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - 5/10

February January

#the lightning theif #the perks of being a wallflower #home field advantage #the song of achilles #the bodyguard #yolk #the many daughters of afong moy #the sea of monsters #booklr #turtles all the way down

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Just One More Page Challenge, Day 13: Wanted To Love, But Didn’t.

While I’ve (sadly) read a lot of books that fall into this category, the two most recent have both been Books of the Month.

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy seemed super up my alley when I picked it up, but the lack of nuance and pop-science dragged it down. I ultimately rated it 2.5 stars.

Thistlefoot seemed even MORE up my alley, but the writing just did not work for me. It was descriptive to the point of being hard to understand, so I ended up dnf-ing it.

Also, ft. my extremely nosy cat.

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book of the month #book of the month club #thistlefoot #the many daughters of afong moy

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She sat [...] in a small glade where there were so many glowworms it was hard to tell where the earth ended and the starry sky began. As the full moon rose above the trees, she opened the book and read, inhaling lines of poetry along with the fragrance of wisteria in full bloom.

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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

by Jamie Ford

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Synopsis:

"Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.

As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.

Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.

As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn't the only thing she's inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who's loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and to gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price."

Review:

Jamie Ford brings into perspective the impacts of generational trauma and how it can shape us into the people we are in the present time. Did you know that our history can be traced back through matrilineal genetics because everything we are from our looks to our organelles is accomplished through our mothers? Yes, our fathers contribute to our creation by providing a piece of DNA, but it is the women's contribution that brings us to life.

Dorothy was a highly relatable character to me to an extent. I had experienced a similar situation to the one she was in.

Stuck in a toxic relationship, but doing her best for her daughter. She deserves more, better than what she was given. As all the Moy women deserve.

The generational trauma that she had inherited from the women before her had consumed her entire being. She couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. It was heartbreaking.

I will warn you guys, there are some heavy topics within this book so be aware of this. There were times I was begging for a break, a light in the darkness of the pages. None of these women deserved what happened to them and I wanted nothing more than to hug every single one of them.

I loved that Jamie Ford also dove into the Buddhist religion. I was always fascinated with Buddhist teachings and how those within the religion approach life. I plan to purchase a book or two to expand my knowledge of it. I never want to stop learning. Religion has always been a difficult topic for me, but we won't dive into that.

I will not lie to you all, I am finding myself hoping and believing in the invisible string of fate. Where the person who was destined for us is waiting for the right turn of events to bring us together. I can be both a cynic and a hopeless romantic. Just a warning!

I enjoyed this emotional read, but it did take me a while to finish due to how heavy it is. If you are up for an emotional read...pick this book up. Cuddle up with a blanket, some tea, and some Kleenex. Be prepared for the heartache and the longing for a long-lost love.

Favorite Parts/Quotes:

"He gently put the ear tips in her ears, then slipped the metal chest piece between the buttons of his shirt, directly above his heart.

'What are you doing?'

He smiled again and leaned closer.

'I wanted you to hear my heartbeat when I kiss you for the first time.'"

The amount of girly squealing I made at this part was ridiculous. Ridiculous! Anyway, there you have it!

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Review: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Author: Jamie FordPublisher: Atria BooksReleased: August 2nd, 2022Received: Own (BOTM)Warnings: Generational trauma Wow. There was no way I could read the description of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy and successfully walk away. This is one of those books that demands to be read, you know? Dorothy Moy is an artist who uses her personal trauma and mental health condition to fuel her art. It’s…

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Epic Stories: 2022 picks to check out

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.

Small World by Jonathan Evison

Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions. The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers' lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed--and forced--by the age. The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country's injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.

Scorpica by G.R. Macallister

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other—and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter’s explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends—and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

"There is one every generation--a seer who keeps the stories." Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930's Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.

#Fantasy #historical fiction #Fiction #Magical Realism #to read #tbr #Book Recommendations #reading recommendations #epic #epic stories #epic fiction #new books #new releases #booklr #booktok #book blog #library books #highly recommend

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It takes a while to settle into The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford and its different timelines. It takes a longer while to settle into the fact that this book is more the presentation of an idea than a plot line beginning to end. It is about trauma compounded through generations. It is about efforts to counter that trauma. It is about hope for the future in science. The book leaves me thinking, and I will remember it. 

Reviewed for NetGalley.

#book #fiction #book review #netgalley #bookreview #book blog #review #generational trauma #epigenetics

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TBR List

Keeping this here for my own reference tbh. My notes app is a war zone. I go through phases of devouring books and then doing literally anything else so this current batch could last me 2 months or 8 years who knows.

“Diary of a Void” by Emi Yagi

“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

“Sorrowland” by Rivers Solomon

“The Life of the Mind” by Christine Smallwood

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon

“Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

“Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson

“The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” by Jamie Ford

“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr

“The Overstory” by Richard Powers

“The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver

“The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Wind that Lays Waste” by Selva Almada

#writeblr #writing #reading #books #tbr list #to be read #creative writing #literary fiction #bookblr

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Hardcover.

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*✧ — JANUARY 2023 WRAP UP

posting this wrap up super late because i can. i am struggling™ and reading is probably one of the only things keeping me afloat right now; consuming any other type of media is currently not working for me. also, i am rereading the hp books for uni and i haven’t read any of them since 2007. i can’t say i absolutely hate them but some things are very icky, and you know, fuck jkr.

2023 goal: 24/100 books

as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!

* –> newly added to my favorites shelf

follow my goodreads | follow my storygraph | previous wrap ups

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An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helen Trusten | 2.5★ | review

Bastard by Max de Radiguès | 5★

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg | 3.5★ | review

Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach | 3.75★ 

The Story of Art without Men by Kate Hessel | 4.5★ | review

I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers | 4.75★ | review

The Waves by Virginia Woolf | 5★ | review

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung | 4★

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala | 4.75★ | review

On Beauty by Zadie Smith | 4★ | review

Zaïda by Anne Cuneo | 2.25★ | review

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher | 4★

Außer sich by Sasha Marianna Salzmann | no rating | review

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry | 4.75★ | review

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas | 3.75★ | review

* Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood | 5★

Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë | 4★

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford | 3.5★

The Book of Night Women by James Marlon | 4.75★ | review

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center | 3.5★

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale | 3.75★ | review

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake | 4.25★ | review

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling | no rating

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne | 4.5★

#wrap up #goodreads #the storygraph #book recs #mish reads

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 Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington?s former poet laureate, that?s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful

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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

I've been waiting for this one. I also realized when looking up the cover of this book that I did not read his last book! So I just got the ebook and am going to set aside what I started yesterday for that one.

But I digress.

Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman in the US. Her "daughters" in this book are the generations that have come after her. The book pushes ahead past the current time and focuses mianly on Dorothy. Dorothy has dealt with depression and disocciative episodes her whole life. Now, her five-year-old daughter is experiencing the same. She does not want her daughter to live the heartache she has, so she finds a treatment center for those with inherited trauma (for herself). These episodes she has are experiences from her ancesters dating back to Afong Moy.

Pretty interesting concept, right?

Ford is a fabulous writer which is shown again from the beginning to the end of this book. His characterization is top notch which is quite impressive considering he introduced so many spanning from Afong to Dorothy and her daughter.

I rated this four stars on Goodreads. I'd give it four and a half if I could. I just had a hard time keeping straight the storylines of the different women as the plot got going. But that's my only beef. Everything else about it is five stars, and the last sentence... it's one of those last sentences that makes you clutch the book to your chest upon conclusion.

Side note - if you've not yet read Ford's Songs of Willow Frost, read it. It's amazing.

[the--starless--sea]

She held the circle of green and purple to her nose and inhaled the happiness, the hope in that circlet of flowers.

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Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington?s former poet laureate, that?s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful