WRITING & PUBLISHING

When Memoir is Bedeviled by the Begats

How do we honor our ancestors without boring our readers?

Aimee Liu
7 min readFeb 10, 2022

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My mother came from a long line of Bible thumpers that stalled with her irreverent father. Canadian by birth, Wisconsin farmer by training, my Gramp used to regale his kids with dinner table recitations of what he called The Begats, which…

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Aimee Liu

Author, Asian-American novels (Glorious Boy), nonfiction on eating disorders (Gaining), writing, wellness. Published @Hachette. MFA & more@ aimeeliu.net