Book review: A young professional searches for belonging, and maybe a better relationship with her mother, in Delia Cai's 'Central Places'
"Central Places" by Delia Cai Delia Cai's debut novel has all the trappings of a breezy rom-com: Audrey, a successful 27-year-old New Yorker with a glamorous job in ad sales and handsome photojournalist fiancé, returns home to the Midwest to be confronted with old tensions with family and friends she thought she'd left in her past -- including an unrequited high school crush.
But Cai's novel is decidedly not a rom-com. At the heart of the novel is the complicated relationship Audrey has with her mother, who left behind everything she had in China when Audrey's father was accepted to a U.S. graduate school, and then gave up dreams of a career when Audrey was born.
Returning home for the first time in eight years, Audrey begins to question whether she really had to shed everything from her past to become a"success." And she wonders if her relationship with white, wealthy, Manhattan-bred Ben is as perfect as she thought.
With a compassionate lens, Cai's novel details how disorienting it can be as a young adult to try to meld together the pieces of past and present to build a place for yourself that finally feels like home.
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