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Tiger Babies Strike Back
Kim Wong Keltner
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Description for Tiger Babies Strike Back
Paperback.
What a Tiger Mother thinks is ferocity is just control-freakiness turned rancid like frozen breast milk left in the mini Tupperware too long. Tiger Mom, I'm just not that into you - "From Tiger Babies Strike Back". After Amy Chua's controversial parenting book became fodder for every morning talk show, Kim Wong Keltner wasn't surprised to be asked, Are you a Tiger Mother? Raised by a Tiger Mom herself, Kim wasn't fazed. Instead, she's striking back. Hard. Traversing the choppy seas of American and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties facing women today - Chinese-American and otherwise. At once ... Read more
What a Tiger Mother thinks is ferocity is just control-freakiness turned rancid like frozen breast milk left in the mini Tupperware too long. Tiger Mom, I'm just not that into you - "From Tiger Babies Strike Back". After Amy Chua's controversial parenting book became fodder for every morning talk show, Kim Wong Keltner wasn't surprised to be asked, Are you a Tiger Mother? Raised by a Tiger Mom herself, Kim wasn't fazed. Instead, she's striking back. Hard. Traversing the choppy seas of American and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties facing women today - Chinese-American and otherwise. At once ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062229298
SKU
V9780062229298
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About Kim Wong Keltner
The only thing that keeps Kim Wong Keltner from writing is when she's trapped under an avalanche of her daughter's stuffed animals. Keltner is the author of The Dim Sum of All Things, Buddha Baby, and I Want Candy. Tiger Babies Strike Back is her first work of nonfiction.
Reviews for Tiger Babies Strike Back
"The author writes with compassion, humor, love and anger about her mother's combination of tough love and high expectations...A quirky reflection on the modern immigrant experience and hyphenated ethnicity in America."
Kirkus Reviews "An inspiring take on mothering
and daughtering. The book is smart, creative, and thought-provoking."
Linda Small, author of Wimpy Parents: How Not to Raise ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews "An inspiring take on mothering
and daughtering. The book is smart, creative, and thought-provoking."
Linda Small, author of Wimpy Parents: How Not to Raise ... Read more