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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life – Ali Wong
Non-fiction / 9th March 2020

Introduction Dear Girls is supposedly written for the author’s 2 daughters. This book is chosen as the Best Humor Book of the Year in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019. That is how I knew about this book. The book explores the topics that the author wish to discuss with her late father. Author Ali Wong is a stand-up comedian by profession. She has produced 2 Netflix stand-up specials: Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife. Perhaps you know her as the main character in a Netflix movie known as Always Be My Maybe. Her birth name is Alexander Dawn Wong. Content Dear Girls has a preface, a total of 14 chapters, and an afterword by Justin Hakuta, the author’s husband. The titles of the chapters in numerical order are 1) How I Trapped Your Father, 2) The Miracle of Life, 3) Tips on Giving Birth, 4) Why I Went Back to Work, 5) Hustle and Pho, 6) Snake Heart, 7) The DJ, 8) Mr. Wong, 9) A Guide to Asian Restaurants, 10) Bringing Up Bébés, 11) Uncle Andrew, 12) My Least Favorite Question, 13) Bridin’ Dirty, and 14) Wild Child. Review Dear Girls is supposed to be a collection of letters…