I had a great time meeting with the Déjà Vu Book Club! This book club has been going for fifteen years, which is amazing, and it was such a pleasure to chat about Mathey Girls.
We had a lengthy discussion about some of the cultural aspects of the novel. Fortunately, we had a range of Chinese diasporic voices to give their perspective on the complicated issues of 20th century Chinese history and immigration to the US.
My friend Pauline highlighted one aspect of Mathey Girls I hadn’t specifically considered: the friendship in the novel shows how longstanding friend groups actually grow stronger over time. A lot of depictions of college-age friendships are from a lens of nostalgia, but in Mathey Girls (and in my real life), these friendships grow so much deeper as we live out our lives and find our individual paths.
Thank you to Irene for hosting (and Irene’s husband for taking the picture!). And thanks again to the book club members for reading and sharing your views.
If you’d like me to join your book club, please reach out! Email me at melody@melodychuauthor.com. I’m happy to Northeast Ohio book clubs in person, or non-local book clubs via Zoom.
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