Madalena’s Reviews > Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters – A Witty Memoir of Growing Up Korean American and Loving a Challenging Mother > Status Update

I've just cracked into this one and I'm cracking up already. Here's a taste: "When I was eight, he [protagonist's father who is a metallurgist] gave me a glass mercury thermometer, which I liked to chew on and wave like a wand. Eventually he remembered that mercury causes mental retardation."