{"id":3064,"date":"2023-08-10T21:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:20:50","slug":"you-know-what-you-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"You Know What You Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHer mother\u2019s approval was everything, her rejection absolute annihilation.\u201d A daily does of annihilation is Anh Le\u2019s lot as the child of a Vietnamese immigrant mother who is \u201cfrom the \u2018I criticize because I care\u2019 culture.\u201d Today, M\u1eb9, the mother, lives in the carriage house next to her artist daughter, now called Annie, who\u2019s married with a sullen teen daughter, whom M\u1eb9 calls a whore. After Annie finds M\u1eb9 dead, things start to get even more difficult. Despite her OCD related to cleanliness, Annie must clean out the carriage house where her mother refused to throw out anything, even rotten food. At the same time, she takes on a new commission for her local benefactor, an elderly lady who doesn\u2019t acknowledge M\u1eb9\u2019s death (\u201cChina dolls needn\u2019t have troublesome backstories\u201d) and who promptly goes missing. At first, the police refuse to believe there\u2019s any issue, but as further crimes come to light, they and Annie herself, who\u2019s once again crippled by her compulsions, begin to wonder if she\u2019s to blame. Nguyen delves deep into the trauma caused by war and the generations-spanning destruction it can unleash, but anyone who grew up feeling othered will recognize themselves here. <strong>A debut to remember, and what a gripping ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHer mother\u2019s approval was everything, her rejection absolute annihilation.\u201d A daily does of annihilation is Anh Le\u2019s lot as the child of a Vietnamese immigrant mother who is \u201cfrom the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[71,180,52,51],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-asian-american","tag-debut","tag-psychological","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/U-Know-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/U-Know-1-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}