, tells the story of two Korean-American sisters and their struggles with family, identity, cultural erasure, and intergenerational trauma.
Then, everything became copy. I couldn't stop narrating my real life and narrating what was happening, practicing what would happen if this book came out and I would have to say that, God forbid, something awful happened to my mother. Thank God that's not how it panned out: my mother had surgery and is, for this moment in time, cancer-free.
I realized I was isolating. Understandably, it had been a really long time since I'd seen anyone, but it also had been a really long time since I'd gone outside or even talked to people on the phone or via text. It really looked like depression—the kind of depression where you can't move—except it was overshadowed with anxiety. Then I realized—as I do, because I am part of 12 step groups—Ithere's a group for this. I went to codependents anonymous and Al-Anon.
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