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| My daughter Ellen in the local library |
By Laurie Epps
So much of my identity is
wrapped up in books that to really know me, my daughters would have to read
some of my most favorite books to know anything about me.
In the Joy Luck Club,
Ying-Ying attributes her daughter’s instability in the present to her past own
weakness: “Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is the daughter of
a ghost. She has no chi. This is my greatest shame. How can I leave this
world without leaving her my spirit?” (286)
