A memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

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A memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.
Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American writer and painter. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
Raised in Texas, Hyeseung studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the Grand Central Atelier. She is a Harvard Law School and Harvard Grad School drop-out (read the book). A two-time Greenshields award winner, TedX speaker, and resident artist of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, the Vermont Studio Center and the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program, she has also taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Queens Council on the Arts.
Her paintings have been the subject of three solo shows, one three-person, and over fifty group shows. Her work is held in private collections internationally.