Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu
Yi Shun Lai
2016
We are Here: Done! (Just in time for Mother’s Day.)
Spoilers? Vaguely
Reflections
The debut novel of author Yi Shun Lai chronicles a few months in the life of a floundering young woman named Marty. A late-20-something mess in spiraling free-fall, Marty reluctantly allows her mother’s acerbic net to catch and redeposit her in Taiwan for a summer of familial intrigue, pseudo-redemption, and TEOSL.
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