A beautiful, powerful memoir about motherhood and daughterhood, of war and survival, and queerness and cultural expectations. Putsata recounts a childhood in Oregon having narrowly fled the war in Cambodia. Growing up as an outsider in America, and later an outsider back in Cambodia.

A memoir that fans of Crying in H Mart or Native Country of the Heart will love for the complications about how mothers are often the roots to our identities, and yet our toughest critics.