This collection of eight storiescynical and sympathetic by turnsrepresents the authors attempt to document and understand the conflicts resentments hatreds and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mothers busy day playing numerous rolesashamed fearless or humbledepending on which member of her family shes tending to. In The Privacy of My Father a daughter tracks her father to Hong Kong in order to spy on what she thinks is an illicit affair. All in all says Seo Ha