Zhi Yi Saw reviews Me, Her, Us by Yen Rong Wong
Me, Her, Us
by Yen Rong Wong
ISBN 9780702266201
Reviewed by ZHI YI SAW
Me, Her, Us, by award-winning non-fiction writer and art critic Yen-Rong Wong, is her debut collection of memoir-essays that centres around her investigation and views of various relationships: Her own with sex (Me), her relationship with her mother (Her), and the wider relationship between Asian women and sex (Us). Much of Wong’s previous works also tackled similar subject matters of race, gender, and family from the perspective of a Chinese-presenting woman, like “Things Left Unsaid,” winner of the 2022 Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer. Through a myriad of statistics, media critique, and personal anecdotes; she offers an unfiltered look at Australian society and the Chinese diaspora on their treatment and internalised expectations set on Asian women.