![]() ![]() Lulu’s fearlessness is underscored by an anecdote from when Lulu was three. Chua and her daughters’ personalities seem to confirm the validity of their Zodiac signs: Tiger Amy is fearless and fierce, Monkey Sophia is contemplative and hardworking, and Boar Lulu embraces confrontation. ![]() Chua describes cultivating the precociousness of her first child and navigating the rebelliousness of her second child, all while she and her husband experience considerable career changes.Ĭhua implements a strict regimen of academics and music for her children. The memoir follows Sophia and Lulu’s childhoods, balancing mostly chronological excerpts with vignettes from Chua and Jed’s childhoods, as well as academic contemplations about the sociological implications of racialized parenting. It traces Chua’s parenting of her daughters, Sophia and Louisa ( “Lulu”), and how she and her husband Jed, who is Jewish, navigate their personal and cultural differences. ![]()
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