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The many daughters of Afong Moy : a novel

Ford, Jamie (author.).

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering things and events she has never experienced, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt the present. If she doesn't take radical steps, her daughter will be doomed to face the same debilitating depression that has marked her life. Through epigenetic therapy-an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma-Dorothy intimately connects with the past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in Burma serving with the Flying Tigers; Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; and Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app. Through reliving their painful stories, Dorothy comes to understand the true cost of inherited pain. As the past bleeds into the present, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn't the only thing she's inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who's loved her through all of her genetic memories. And that person is most certainly not her current husband, Louis. To protect her daughter's future, Dorothy must break the cycle and find a way to cross time and resolve all past traumas, to find the love that has long been waiting, and find peace for Annabel. Even if it means she must sacrifice her only chance at life and happiness"--|cProvided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1432897608
  • ISBN: 9781432897604
  • Physical Description: 609 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
    large print
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2022.
Subject: Mental illness Fiction
Mothers and daughters Fiction
Psychic trauma Fiction
Women Fiction
Genre: Large type books.
Epic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Magic realist fiction.

Available copies

  • 11 of 11 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library LARGE TYPE FORD (Text) 50686016217668 Adult Fiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library LP FOR (Text) 30063000275612 Large Print Available -
Ellwood City Area Public Library LT F Ford (Text)
Memorial: Nancy Jean Straessley given by Lu Iannantuono.
32102000897047 ECAM Fiction Large-Print Available -
Milton Public Library LP FOR (Text) 33226000943987 MLTM Adult Fiction Available -
Trone Memorial Library (East Berlin) LP FIC FORD JAMIE (Text)
Endowment: Elizabeth K. McCarthy Named Endowment, 2022
35740635871940 Large Print Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library FORD, JAMIE (Text) 34455006927566 Large Print Available -
Barrett Paradise Friendly Library LP F For (Text) 37171000172920 Large Print Available -
Bethlehem Main Library f (Text) 33062009629917 Large Print Fiction Available -
Hughes Library L.P. F FOR (Text) 32378005145166 Adult Large Print Available -
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