“Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME “Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.” —Connie Chung A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya . It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my mother —the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places they’ve gone and the things they’ve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging—once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation—we can experience something almost like freedom. One of Elle ’s Best and Most Anticipated Books of 2023 One of Cup of Jo ’s Book Recs One of Oprah Daily ’ s Books We Can ’ t Wait to Read in 2023 One of Nylon ’s 12 May 2023 Books to Add to Your Reading List One of Bustle ’ s Most Anticipated Books of Spring and Summer 2023 One of Good Morning America ’ s 15 Fresh Books to Get Lost in This May One of Katie Couric Media ’ s 8 New Books to Add to Your Shelf Immediately One of Zibby Mag ’ s Most Anticipated Spring and Summer Books One of BookRiot ’ s Most Anticipated Travel Books of 2023 One of PureWow ’ s 14 New (and New-Ish) Books to Read for AAPI Heritage Month One of TIME’ s 8 New Books to Read or Give This Mother ’ s Day One of Shondaland’ s 5 Books to Read This Mother’s Day One of Vogue ’s 10 of the Best Beach Reads to Lose Yourself in This Summer One of W Magazine’ s 14 New Books to Dive Into This Summer One of StyleCaster’ s 8 Must-Read Books by AAPI Authors One of Smithsonian ’ s Ten Best Books About Travel of 2023 One of Brit + Co ’ s 20 Best Books Of 2023 “ Oh My Mother! is pure joy. . . . Alongside the funny stories about [Wang’s mother] Qing are Wang’s sharp cultural observations. . . . the book [is] as unique and charming as its mother-daughter pair.” —The Washington Post “Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It’s like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints of Cathy Park Hong’s hit essay collection, Minor Feelings. ”  —Oprah Daily “A sort of road trip through a complex mother-daughter relationship in nine essays, journalist Connie Wang’s collection is electric with warmth, humor, and intellect, as so well-captured in the book’s title. A literal translation of the closest Chinese expression to ‘Oh my God,’ Oh My Mother! is poised to be a glowing debut.” —Elle “Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME “The stories that journalist and essayist Connie Wang weaves about her mother, Qing Li, are extremely funny . . . but they’re also full of love and empathy, making them the perfect thing to gift your mom (or get for yourself) this summer.” —Vogue “In journalist Connie Wang’s loving, candid debut memoir, she explores her relationship with her mother through nine sweet and funny essays—capturing the joys and complexities of big moments, like attending a Magic Mike strip show in Las Vegas or taking edibles in Amsterdam together, to the quiet, small ones.” —Nylon “Wang explores all the hilarious, wonderful, wild aspects of her relationship with her mother, Qing Li. . . . Wang tells the type of genuine and relatable stories that mother-daughter partners in crime will cherish.” —Shondaland “This heartfelt, hilarious collection of essays from journalist Connie Wang explores the complexity of one of the most impactful relationships in anyone’s lifetime: mother and daughter.” —W Magazine “In some ways, this propelling memoir about a mother-daughter duo traveling around the world reads like a mash-up of Eat, Pray, Love and The Amazing Race , but the differences are delightful. . . . There’s also a deeper story here about the growth that comes from getting outside one’s comfort zone. Wang finds her relationship with her mom to be equal parts endearing and infuriating, as only familial ties can be. Their journey may motivate readers to see t