Ma and Me A Memoir 1st Edition by Putsata Reang ISBN 9780374720056 0374720053

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ISBN 10: 0374720053
ISBN 13: 9780374720056
Author: Putsata Reang

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
Finalist for the 2023 Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lambda Literary Award

“A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This openhearted memoir . . . opens the door to include queer descendants of war survivors into the growing American library of love.” —Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show

When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in her arms, Ma resisted the captain’s orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child’s life. “I had hope, just a little, you were still alive,” Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.

Over the years, Put lived to please Ma and make her proud, hustling to repay her life debt by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, working steadfastly by Ma’s side in the berry fields each summer and eventually building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. But Put’s adoration and efforts are no match for Ma’s expectations. When she comes out to Ma in her twenties, it’s just a phase. When she fails to bring home a Khmer boyfriend, it’s because she’s not trying hard enough. When, at the age of forty, Put tells Ma she is finally getting married—to a woman—it breaks their bond in two.

In her startling memoir, Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.

Ma and Me A Memoir 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Cambodia

Crocodile and Tiger

Ma

Something to Hide

Broken Hope

Happiest Day

Some Kind of Hell

Size of a Mango

The Weight of Things

Empty Arms

Part II: America

The Rabbit and the Snail

Failure to Thrive

Freedom

Broken From Rice

Seng

The Runaways

Ironwood Avenue

Liberated by Language

A Qwak, A Qwen

Picking Season

Tomboy

Too American

Blue Letters

Part III: Double Displacement

The Return

Dateline, Cambodia

Running

Hiding

Ring of Fire

The Suitor

Wandering Spirits

That the Gay

The Setup

Between Two Worlds

The Great Divide

Malis Gets Married

Part IV: Freedom

Crocodile and Oxcart Driver

A War Within

Afghanistan

Calling Me Home

Freedom of Expression

Gay Tax

Escape

Overboard

Trap

Happiest and Saddest Day

Quitting Time

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Praise for Ma and Me

A Note About the Author

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