Unfinished Business: Breaking Down the Great Wall Between Adult Child and Immigrant Parents
Unfinished Business is now an Amazon Best Seller, having reached the top of the Amazon's best seller charts.
If you've ever yearned for your parents' approval, felt the weight of their high expectations, or experienced the burden of unspoken obligations to care for them as they age, you're not alone.
Too often, we hesitate to ask our parents about their lives, held back by mistaken beliefs or past conflicts. With warmth, wit, and vulnerability Amy Yip explores the profound influence her parents had on her life and offers you a roadmap to navigate conversations with your own parents.
In Unfinished Business, Amy takes us on a heartfelt journey from detachment to deep connection with her own parents as she delves into the stories she holds about them; from "My success will never be good enough for my parents" to "I must be mentally tough and never ask for help" and everything in between. She illuminates the power of conversation as she invites us to see the world through her and your parents' eyes. By engaging in meaningful dialogues and taking the time to truly understand their experiences and struggles, we discover that our parents are not just figures from our past, but complex individuals with their own hopes, dreams, and fears.
Each chapter provides a framework of self-reflective prompts, practical tips, and thought-provoking questions to ask your parents, empowering you to embark on your own journey of connection. Because, regardless of the generation we belong to, we all long to be heard and understood. And that includes our parents.
Join Amy on this poignant exploration of family, identity, and the power of conversation. It's time to embrace the unfinished business, unravel the untold stories, and forge a deeper bond with the ones who shaped us.
This is not and was never going to be easy. But it can get easier.
"The book I needed to read while struggling to straddle two worlds, American culture and that of my parents - Vietnamese refugees who escaped into the United States with only the clothing on our backs. Amy tells her story of finding her way home by examining her relationship with her parents. In doing so, she tells many of our stories with warmth and vulnerability, shining a light on the tenuous but beautiful of the parent-child relationship."
Lan Phan, community of SEVEN, CEO
"'Relationships are hard and relationships with parents are REALLY hard'. lf you've got parents and can relate to this quote then get ready for a menagerie of stories that will make you laugh and contemplate how you learned to love."
Julie M. Wong, Leadership & Mental Fitness Coach, iEmpower Coaching
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"Whether you want to let go of the guilt that you need to repay your parents for their sacrifices or you want to reframe your beliefs that your success won't ever be good enough for your parents, this book is for you. Part memoir, part guidebook to navigate conversations with your own parents, Amy shows us that this is not and was never going to be easy. But it can and will get easier."
Lei Han, Head of Digital Product, SVB Private, a Division of First Citizen Bank
"Amy beautifully captures the tension many of us feel while trying to honor our parents and cultural traditions, even when it conflicts with our inner voice and aspirations. She provides concrete steps you can take to untangle your family's priorities from your own. So, you can use that understanding to transform your definition of success into one that is more spacious, aligned, and compassionate."
Leslie Forde, CEO & Founder, Mom's Hierarchy of Needs
"Unfinished Business is a story of intergenerational trauma, gifts, love and healing laid out in intimate detail. I am in awe of what Amy and her parents have brought together via their challenging and both heartbreaking and heartwarming conversations."
Newton Cheng, Director, Health + Performance Program, Google
"The heartfelt insight from Amy's journey delivers hope, laughter, and a few tears. Her bravery in exploring her inner dialogue of being raised in one culture and being born into another eases the path in a dark tunnel so familiar to kids of immigrants. But the proverbial light is here! While there are never hard fast answers to each person's story, Amy does an extraordinary job by sharing her own path, helping us create space for ourselves to ask powerful questions so we too can repair and rebuild bridges with our parents and create even stronger ones with our children."
Dorothy Liu, Mom & Coach for API families, Resonant Strategies, LLC
"'The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.' - Laozi.
Make sure you take that first step with Unfinished Business as your guide. This book will help open conversations for relationships burdened with cultural and generational differences. Amy shows that no matter how old you are, there are steps you can take to make things better. I have only a few more years with my older parents, but we have made strides in tearing down age old barriers. I am so grateful to Amy and Unfinished Business for allowing me to make new memories with my parents before it is too late."
Ida Shen, Food Program Manager, Google
