My friend Evin has the best description of this in her short review which helped solidify some of my confusion with the show: it’s “a beautiful meander,” as opposed to a narratively driven memoir as you might expect. Zauner takes us through the confusing, complicated relationship she had with her mother through the language that should be familiar to anyone vaguely well versed in the ways of the Asian immigrant parent: food. Descriptions of and names of food are everywhere–this is not a book to […]