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“DOCILE is the rarest of things: a scorchingly honest, beautiful, hugely evocative memoir that’s also a proper page-turner. I read it breathlessly in a single sitting, transported and deeply moved. It's at one and the same time the story of a life and a meditation on identity, family, trauma, illness, and the nature of love, art, and success. It’s wonderful.” – Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk

“A work of extraordinary tenderness and depth, DOCILE chronicles an immigrant family’s dreams, losses, and love through Hyeseung Song’s clear-eyed and poetic storytelling. Ultimately a book about the call of art, the bane of mental illness, and inheritances both welcome and not, DOCILE offers a gorgeous glimpse of one seeker’s earnest journey toward selfhood.” – Rachel Yoder, author of Night Bitch

"A savagely beautiful memoir. Skillfully crafted and achingly heartfelt, Docile creates worlds through richly-observed details, told with a powerful narrative drive. Eloquent, often funny, and always unflinchingly honest, Song has created a Portrait of the Artist as a Young AAPI Woman which will be read and cherished for generations to come." — David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly

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