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You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
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How to be a Myanmar person—a baker, swimmer, writer and woman—on your own terms rather than those of the colonizer? You've Changed traces the journey of a woman who spent her young adulthood in the US and UK before returning to her hometown of Yangon, where she still lives. In these irreverent yet vulnerable essays Pyae takes on romantic relationships whose futures are determined by different passports; switching accents in American taxis; the patriarchal Myanmar concept of hpone, which governs how laundry is done; swimming as refuge from mental illness; pleasure and shame around eating rice; and baking in a kitchen far from white America's imagination. Throughout, she wrestles with the question of who she is—a Myanmar woman in the West, a Western-educated person in Yangon, a writer who refuses to be labeled a "race writer." With intimate and funny prose, Pyae shows how the truth of identity may be found not in stability but in its gloriously unsettled nature.
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"Across two essays [the author] lucidly examines her fraught relationship with her own name ..."
"Probably the readers who benefit the most will have comparable trajectories, or at least some knowledge of societies that share some comparable characteristics to those of Myanmar, which is not for example alone in its naming patterns, difficult scripts, or ideals of femininity."
"Particularly brilliant is her candid discussion of her conflicted feelings about writing about her heritage, which, at times, feels like a trap ..."
"sparkling essays suffused with cutting humor ..."
"She deftly skewers gender inequity ..."
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