Praise for What My Bones Know, a NYT Bestseller
4.52 stars on Goodreads
“What takes this brilliant work from a personal story to a cultural touch point is the way Foo situates her experiences into a larger conversation about intergenerational trauma, immigration, and the mind-body connection… This is a work of immense beauty.”
- Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Absorbing… a reckoning, and Foo approaches it with candor and rigor…profoundly affecting.”
- The New York Times
“An unflinching reminder of the hidden struggles many face, told with the keen eye of a researcher and the brutality of a documentarian.”
- NPR
“Foo’s writing is shrewdly insightful. In telling her story so compellingly, she [adds] nuance to the “model minority” myth, if not actively subverting it. Highly recommended.
- Library Journal (starred review)
“Foo's happy ending is nothing short of deliverance – rich and joyful and full of care the child was denied. Possibility still glows around the edges of her sight.”
- USA Today
“a sharp, insightful and stirring memoir.”
- Kirkus
“An intimate, deeply engrossing story of psychological recoverY.”
- The Australian
“raw, vulnerable, transformational, messy, eloquent, captivating. I finished this book with awe and gratitude. Go get this book. do not delay.”
- PACES Connection
“What My Bones Know is not only uniquely suited for audio, but constructs a creative audio experience that challenges…[the] listener in unexpected and illuminating ways.”
- Audible
Press
Ten Percent Happier Podcast: “How to Live With the Worst Things That Ever Happened to You.”
The Stacks Podcast
NPR’s Weekend Edition
The Guardian Life & Style
WNYC’s The Takeaway
The Cut
The Allusionist
USA Today
New York Times Bestseller , #1 Psychology Bestseller in China
Amazon Editor’s #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year So Far (June 2022) and an Amazon Best Book of 2022 (Nov 2022)
Goodreads’ Members #8 Nonfiction Book of the Year So Far (June 2022) and a 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
Goodreads’ Best 2022 Books by AAPI Authors
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2022 and a Staff Pick
One of Publisher’s Weekly’s 20 Best Books of 2022
One of Apple’s Best 20 Audiobooks of 2022
One of Audible’s Best 15 Memoirs and Biographies of 2022
Business Insider’s 20 of the Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2022
Cosmopolitan’s Best 15 Nonfiction Books of 2022
The New York Times’ “What’s In Our Queue?”
New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix
Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Read (February 2022)
Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper Feature
What My Bones Know is available in several languages:
Chinese (China) (non-Amazon option)
Hungarian
Russian
Vietnamese
Turkish