My Review of The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu

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Title: The Manicurist’s Daughter 

Author: Susan Lieu

Published: March 12,2024

Published by: Celadon Books 

Genre: Memoir/Nonfiction 

Pages: 320 pages 

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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This book was amazing! It's very raw and emotional but worth every moment. I enjoy books such as this one because they give an unfiltered view into their life and what events shaped them into who they have become today! 
Susan's mother was the center of everything when she was young. She came to America and sponsored other people so they could come into America and had them work in the successful nail salon she built from the ground up. However, Susan's mother tragically died from a botched tummy tuck when she was eleven. As any child would have Susan had lots of questions and she wanted to be able to grasp what happened to her mother and why. But, her family shut down any questions about the death of her mother, as if they just moved on and left the death in the past. While Susan struggled in more ways than one. She obtained an MBA to fulfill her father's expectations but left it behind to tell her story because her story is important to her! 
In the end, getting her story out there she was able to finally get closure on not only the death of her mother but also how parents' trauma and expectations are forced on children and how we are impacted by that. Susan was able to embark on a journey of change and forgiveness, she was able to find the will in her heart to understand the trauma from her parent's past and how to forgive them so she could move on with her life! Thank you Celedon Books and Netgalley for the remarkable journey of this book! 

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