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Memoirist Tobias Wolff wrote, “The truth is in the memory because the memory is all we have.” Reading Hong Kingston’s book that is categorized as “memoir” puts that freeing epigraph to the test.

This is nothing like a traditional memoir. It’s like it taunts a Westernized reader, saying, “You must be disoriented out of your idea of a life’s narrative before my talk-story can take root in you.”