The age-old secret to raising successful children had been fiercely guarded until Amy Chua’s book on “Tiger Moms” made headlines in 2011. Now, just about every literate American can master these ropes too. But in a rapidly changing society like ours, are such timeworn methods still enough to guarantee a child’s success? This original play examines several contemporary Asian American issues, e.g. coming out in Asian families, parental pressure, and questions of image and identity, through the lens of one family’s struggle to understand each other and what it means to succeed.
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