How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

By Jane Wong

Pages

100

Rating

4.19

Year

2021

HistoryMemoirPoetryGriefFamilyAsian American

Description

This collection explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families.

What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958–62?

Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival.