Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life – Ali Wong

Comedian Ali Wong brings us Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice For Living Your Best Life, a memoir organized as letters to her two daughters.  She tells stories about growing up in San Francisco with a Chinese-American father and a Vietnamese mother, studying abroad in Hawaii (yes, I know and so does she) and in Vietnam, moving to New York for her career, meeting her husband, and having her children.

Reading through this, I was struck with the realization that while I know who she is, I’m not super familiar with Wong’s work.  I’m pretty sure I saw one of her standup specials on Netflix where she was pregnant with one of her daughters and I know I’ve seen her on TV a time or two, but I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a fan.  Maybe that is why this didn’t resonate with me as much as some other memoirs from comedians I’ve read over the years.  Don’t get me wrong, it was interesting and she had some good tales to tell, but I just wasn’t as invested in it as I thought I’d be when I bought this.  Oh well, you can’t win them all.