Mar 08, 2021
Before There Was a Q
Look like “a boy,” they call you “a boy.” Everyone believed my mother got her answer to her prayer, and for a while it seemed to be so.
The authenticity of chop suey was always the authenticity of survival, of adaptation. And so, like generations of Chinese Americans, chop suey stayed.
“The book is not straightforward, but it is expansive, and I don’t think the only way to make a story cohere is chronology.”
