Julia Evarts, still consumed with grief over her son's death five years ago, receives a starter bag of batter for Amish Friendship Bread and is surprised when the project helps her make new friends, forge a new connection with her husband and daughter, and reconnect with her estranged sister.

What does it mean to be Chinese American? How are we reflected in the people we love, and us in them? What obligation do we have to those who share our blood, and how does a woman claim her life as her own? In vivid and evocative flashes of prose, Darien Hsu Gee dissects long-held beliefs and navigates the complexity of family dynamics from childhood through the current pandemic. Kirkus Reviews calls the collection "taut and lyrical," and poet Rigoberto...